Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Fund was founded in 1925 in order to secure voluntary annual contributions from the alumni to support unrestricted activities of the College and Graduate Schools. It is now the largest alumni fund in the United States with 10,631 contributors in 1938; more than 20,000 individuals have contributed to it al one time or another, and they have given in excess...
...this session" was performed last week in the House more through anger than kindness. All set for execution was a log-rolling act wherein the proponents of $150,000,000 more for WPA would vote $250,000,000 for parity payments into the farm bill, in return for rural support of the WPA money (TIME, April 3). But when the farm bill came to a vote, the city men did not make good. New York's radical Vito Marcantonio and Chicago's old Adolph Sabath kept back their forces, without which the farm Democrats were powerless against...
That a portion of A. F. of L.'s rank & file prefers to leave its Magna Charta alone, William Green indicated last fortnight. He thought it necessary to appeal publicly to Federation unions and members to trust their leaders, back up the amendments. Undivided support was essential to Messrs. Green & Padway, for their battle was about to come to a crisis...
...event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national forces, His Majesty's Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend all the support in their power. They have given the Polish Government an assurance to this effect...
...judge who presided at the trial. But I. R. A. terror, like poison ivy, breaks out in strange places. Late that night, motorists and pedestrians going sleepily home over Hammersmith Bridge, the farthest up-Thames within London, were rocked by a sudden Boom! Suspension chains snapped, a support-girder sagged, windows 100 yards away on the north bank crashed to the street. Bam! In mid-bridge another blast shook the 52-year-old structure from tower to tower. The whole span drooped a foot below its usual level...