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Word: supportable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right turn-proves it daily with deeds instead of words. Their evidence: Constantly Mr. Roosevelt appeases the Democratic conservatives, consistently he calls to heel the business-baiting Janizariat. To keep party harmony, he plans no reform legislation at Session III of the 76th Congress, will actively support none. He has dumped taxes in the Congressional lap; almost daily pinches budget appropriations for New Deal agencies, slashes down works, relief, spending ideas. His hope: a short, sweet session that will end in a burst of party harmony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Fourteen students attended the meeting, five representing organizations which gave their official support to the formation of such a committee, and the rest as delegates from other interested groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee for Academic Freedom Formed; Adopts "Bill of Rights" | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...members of the Young Communist League, and probably not more than two former Communist sympathizers; the Y.C.L., although voting as a bloc, failed to capture the Student Union. While they did well in the elections, the Communists took an apparent beating on the Russo-Finnish question, when their blanket support of the Soviet Union's foreign policy was snowed under by indignant liberals. The liberal majority proceeded to condemn both Russian aggression and the actions of those groups which hope to use Russia's actions as an excuse to rush the United States into war. In the same breath this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S UNITED FRONT | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...Harvard Anti-War Committee offers its full support and cooperation to the new Committee for Academic Freedom. Milton D. Softer, For the Harvard Anti-War Committee

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...willingness to make peace with China does not signify friendliness but Japan's inability to defeat China." Japan, he declared, must either cooperate economically with China as an equal, or withdraw entirely. Later in the week he warned that the "new China would not agree to support Japan in any future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Wang to Life | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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