Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news that Senator "Dear Mac" McAdoo had been swamped by the old-age pensioneer, Sheridan Downey (see p. 26), the President masked neither his surprise nor chagrin, but he made a quick recovery, cheerfully accepted Nominee Downey as a true liberal, let National Chairman Jim Farley promise him election support...
...Smith had early distinguished himself as the best political infighter at the show. Almost singlehanded he wrecked a proposal for large-scale public housing, by inserting a clause forbidding the State to finance any housing program from real-estate taxes except in emergencies. With some Democratic and more Republican support, he tacked onto the judiciary article a section empowering the courts to review facts as well as law in appeals from decisions of State administrative agencies-which would give State courts more control over State wage-&-hour and labor administrators than the U. S. Supreme Court exercises over their national...
Despite 75-year-old Publisher William Randolph Hearst, 74-year-old Los Angeles Times Publisher Harry Chandler is the pet antipathy of West Coast liberals. Yet last week, Los Angelenos who wanted to support their own concept of a free press found themselves also supporting rock-ribbed old Harry Chandler...
...this Voltairian beginning, Lawyer Wirin, appearing in behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, went on to a long and earnest defense of the Times's right to print whatever it likes unless there is "clear and imminent" danger to the Government or the courts. A brief in support of the Times was also filed by the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (leftish...
...Balilla. Last year it recruited 18,500 foreign children, of whom some 5,000 were from the U. S. (mainly New York City, Detroit, Pittsburgh and San Francisco), for the summer trip to Italy. Of its $6,500,000 annual budget for propaganda abroad, Italy spends nearly half to support, wholly or partly, some 800 schools, most of which are in the U. S., France and South America. In the U. S., these schools are usually conducted after public-school hours, ostensibly to teach Italian...