Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most striking is their use by New Deal enemies, who on the one hand assert their conservatism and curse the Administration for extravagance, on the other back the most ultra-radical ideas and advocate the payment of billions in pension grants. Under this category, unfortunately must come the recent support, by Massachusetts Republicans, of the Townsend Plan...
...expanding incomes and growing families are continually deserting old, established neighborhoods and moving farther and farther from the downtown business areas. The older inhabitants are replaced by those living on a lower economic scale. Rents decrease, values fall and houses are allowed to deteriorate because the income will not support proper expenditures for repair." In an attempt to counteract this, FHLBB, its subsidiary, Home Owners' Loan Corp., and the U.S. Housing Authority announced that they had chosen the old Waverly Village section of Baltimore as a testing ground. In prospect, if the program worked, is its extension all over...
...great." But, like Ezra, Vag also "took his measures accordingly." This afternoon he will escort his Pine Manor cheering section to the game, well knowing that their young voices can last out even the toughest gridiron battle. It's Vag's own personal sacrifice. The Crimson will get vocal support, but God help Vag's eardrums...
This curriculum is interesting if only as a complete antithesis in theory to the self-determination and liberality of choice offered here. Undoubtedly this arbitrary scheme of education will be unpopular with radicals and liberals. Many will support President Conant's statement in 1936 that he was "not enthusiastic about an education which is administered by a force pump," and the dread word Fascist may even be read into...
...beginning of the 20th century, Miss Marie Corelli, with the financial support of Edward Morris, Chicago millionaire, purchased the House and completely restored it to its 16th century aspect. Miss Corelli was convinced that the structure should belong to the University; she wrote to Morris, "You may call it a romantic notion perhaps, but I should like to think that the house of John Harvard's mother was a link with John Harvard's university, and a sign of friendship between the two nations...