Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress, the Reorganization Act's best friends, Representative Lindsay Warren of North Carolina and Senator Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina (TIME, April 3), had support well lined up. But their sponsorship of reorganization did not necessarily mean that they wanted all the agencies continued forever. Take WPA, for example. Jimmy Byrnes has ideas about that. Last week he politely shelved his bill to put WPA into a Department of Public Works (TIME, Jan. 23) but he did not shelve his idea, in which many another friend of Economy concurs, of making the States & cities share the cost of Relief...
...major problems facing the young, married, Harvard instructor is where to live. The problem arises from the fact that the salary of the junior teachers is, in many cases, insufficient to support a wife and family in a decent style in Cambridge. In their recent report The Committee of Eight stated: "the unsatisfactory housing and schooling conditions in Cambridge now tempt young teachers with relatively small salaries to live elsewhere or to add to their incomes by doing outside work which interferes with their scholarly pursuits...
...great many of the Catholic clergy are of Irish origin. In Manhattan last month, I.R.A. clubs joined other Irish groups in a "monster commemoration" of Ireland's Easter Week Rebellion of 1916. As noted by the Brooklyn Tablet (Catholic), the meeting's agenda included a vote in "support of the present campaign of the I.R.A. in England." None at the meeting feared excommunication...
...Littauer Center Auditorium at 8:00 o'clock, Yale will have the affirmative on the question: "Resolved, That the United States should orient its foreign policy in vigorous opposition to the Fascist Powers", while Donald McDonald '39, Stanley, O. Beren '41, and Jack S. Orloff '41 will support the Crimson in the negative. Meanwhile in New Jersey another Harvard delegation of Lawrence F. Ebb '39, Phil C. Neal '40, and Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, will uphold the affirmative of the same question against Princeton...
...equivalent of the Abbe children's travel diaries, Our Family is more charming, thanks to the contributions of tomboy Anor. Anor's family and travel observations, her Rats and Mice at Home, and the tales her Chinese nurse told her are shrewd, imaginative, lively, at least partly support Pearl Buck's statement that "I should not be surprised one day to see an actual genius declare itself in those clear eyes of hers...