Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baffling to Chinese coolies are the ramifications of the Chinese-Japanese currency war. Although Japanese Armies have driven beyond many of their homes, they still do business in Chinese dollars. Moreover the Chinese dollar, convertible into foreign exchange as the yen is not, has the support of British financiers, remains the dominant money of China. For 14 months the Japanese have tried to supplant it with Federal Reserve notes in North China, military notes in Central and South China, and have recently announced a new bank of issue, the China Commercial Promotion Bank, whose notes are to circulate...
Welfare & Warfare. Yet, though Reich chemists are working night and day, Germany is less able today to support a long war than she was in 1914. With Lorraine gone the iron ore supply is not enough. The available soil, even including the Bohemian and what could be seized in Poland, Hungary and Rumania, is not sufficient to produce both fodder crops for the cattle and breadstuffs, sugar beets, potatoes, vegetables, flax and hemp for the 152,300,000 population of a Middle European empire. Intensive grain cultivation operations are now being set up in East Prussia, but most...
...changed, nations will change, the world will change. To many Protestant churchmen-but to few Catholics (most of whom deny the reality of Buchmanite "change")-this is a praiseworthy and exciting aim. Hence many a Protestant, conscious of the unhappy shortcomings of his church, gives his support to the happy shortcuts of the Oxford Group, rather than hinder something which may do some good. Buchmanism's brisk conversions (drunks into teetotal testifiers, golfing brokers into junior wardens, black sheep into white sheep) appeal to many an earnest, evangelical modern; its vague theology does not offend his beliefs. This attitude...
Methodist doctrines and ritual are flexible enough so that little controversy arose over their definition. But over a lengthy and liberal social creed submitted to the Conference, there was a sputter. Delegate Alfred Mossman Landon objected to the section which promised the support of the Methodist Church to conscientious objectors. Youngish Delegate Lloyd E. Foster of East Orange, N. J. shouted that only the "grey-haired and baldheaded" objected to the section. Red-faced, Delegate Landon shouted: "I submit that the argument is a cowardly one!" Nevertheless, the Conference voted down grey-haired Mr. Landon...
...American Dental Association, came out guardedly for the Wagner Bill, was roundly applauded by his dental audience. Although he wanted administration of dental care kept in the hands of dentists, and although he did not advocate free treatment for the well-to-do, Dr. Merritt came out for support of "some form of health insurance-compulsory, voluntary, or both-by a payroll tax to which the employe, employer and the Government contribute." Taxation, he said, ". . . should not be burdensome if properly applied and efficiently administered...