Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catholics have given long and consistent support to sound social legislation on fundamental questions like the minimum wage, the right of labor to organize and to bargain collectively, relief of the aged, housing and many others. The insinuation that Catholics have not been "for" anything, is obviously untrue and unfair...
...cite only one example, I would remind you that the Catholic position was stated before the Committee on Interstate Commerce on May 20, 1937, not "against" but in support of Child Labor legislation then before the Committee...
...tells his C. I. 0. superiors, he smells like one to Socialists Butler & Mitchell. Last week they accused him of deliberately wrecking their union to subordinate it to the Communist Party. They declared that he confused simple Southern Negroes and "poor whites" with red tape, refused to support S. T. F. U.'s roadside sit-down in Missouri, finally suspended all its officers without a hearing and called a reorganization convention in St. Louis this week. On Donald Henderson's behalf, a C. I. 0. spokesman replied that he had simply tried to bring order into a maladministered...
...Hlinka, founder of the Slovak autonomous movement. His followers last week prepared Masaryk's eggs for scrambling. Members of the pro-Nazi, anti-Czech, anti-Jewish Hlinka Guard have long plotted, through the semi-autonomous Slovak Cabinet, to proclaim Slovakia's independence, relying on Germany's support and subsequent protection. To a Germany which frankly wants to get a foothold in Carpatho-Ukraine, right next to Slovakia, such a plan smelled good. In any case, the weaker Czecho-Slovakia becomes the more potent becomes Germany's dominion over...
...executive committee of the Harvard Student Union, after hearing a report from the Labor Committee and discussing it at length, voted support of the dining-hall employees' attempt to better their working conditions." Rufus Mathewson '41, Chairman of the HSU Labor Committee...