Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week. Bob Bradford invaded Incumbent Bishop's home town of Wayland, flayed him for personally trying only 19 cases in eight years, for dismissing without prosecution 3,396 cases, including a male degenerate's confessed sex crime against a 12-year-old girl. With ample financial support to fight Mr. Bishop's local machine, Bob Bradford was given a better-than-even chance of winning, and Republican nomination in Middlesex is tantamount to election...
Officials of the T.U.C. and Labor Party joined in a resolution warning Germany to keep out of Czechoslovakia, demanding that Neville Chamberlain call Parliament in extraordinary session to stiffen British policy against the Nazis. But British Labor was not willing to deny support to stodgy Prime Minister Chamberlain. T.U.C. refused to condemn the Prime Minister by refusing him cooperation in Rearmament, decided that Labor will cheerfully continue to earn high wages building British armaments. Cold also was T.U.C. to dire warnings by Delegate J. C. Little of the Amalgamated Engineering Union that in piling up arms under Chamberlain, Labor...
...former Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen, whom he married by proxy while imprisoned (TIME, June 13).* She takes him fresh linen every Friday. Dr. Fuchs explained that of course Gestapo agents have combed Kurt Schuschnigg's accounts, intimate letters and diplomatic correspondence in search of evidence to support the charges against him, and that a peculiarly ingenious device has been invented to break his will: Twice a day Prisoner Schuschnigg is forced to listen to the voices of Adolf Hitler and Propaganda Minister Goebbels, vilifying him at the top of their lungs, from phonograph records...
...Europe, symphony orchestras and opera houses are affairs of state. In the U.S., they are supported by private endowments, contributions and subscripions. Most of the money that goes to support music in the U. S. is made by business and professional men, spent by their wives. The financing and management of most highbrow U.S. music is the hands of women...
...much support Leaders Harrison and Whitney will get in their respective strike votes remains to be seen. The ballots will not be counted much before October 1, when the 15% cut is finally scheduled to go into effect. After that, the National Railway Labor Act still has a long string to its bow. The President may appoint a fact-finding commission to report to him within 30 days. Thereupon both parties must preserve the status quo for another 30 days. Unless Franklin Roosevelt chooses to have the nation's most far-flung industry on strike on Election Day, railroad...