Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maryland last fortnight, Postmaster Harry A. Coy, 35. of Havre de Grace, hometown of Senator Tydings, was kicked out of office in apparent reprisal for his support of Senator Tydings. Last week a thoroughgoing purge of other Tydings friends on the Federal payrolls in Maryland was in full sway. Past Postmaster Coy drove his car out to the Susquehanna River bank, put a bullet through his brain...
...Wisconsin, Democrats were dismayed by news that the La Follettes, Governor Phil and Senator Bob, will not as in 1932 support Democratic Senator Francis Ryan Duffy for re-election late this summer. This year, the La Follettes let it be known that they will help the winner of the Progressive nomination-Representative Thomas R. Amlie or Herman Ekern, onetime State Attorney General-after next month's primary. Possible result: a special appearance in Wisconsin by Franklin Roosevelt in behalf of Senator Duffy...
...Mexican silver. Mexico was in the grip of an economic upset. One day last week the great square in front of the Presidential Palace was turned over to the 25,000 demonstrators of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). The CTM Secretary General, intense Vicente Lombardo Toledano urged support of the Mexican New Deal, proclaimed: "All property owners and capitalists in Mexico are Fascists...
...obstacles in his way when he is going in the direction we all desire? "Who, after all, is qualified to criticize him?" In 1936, when Candidate Roosevelt presumably desired prosperity as earnestly as he does today, Hearstpapers were as loud in their opposition to Roosevelt as they were in support of him in 1932.* Behind this softening attitude toward the New Deal's spending policy is a Hearstian conviction that Recovery will be the big story of the coming months. Having muffed the big story of 1936 and suffered immeasurable lowering of prestige, Hearst now seems determined...
...instrumental in organizing the Central Pacific. The extra name was that of Theodore Dehone Judah, known as Crazy Judah in his prime, who surveyed the route of the Central Pacific over the Sierra Nevadas, persuaded Crocker, Stanford, Hopkins and Huntington (then Sacramento merchants) to back him, battled for Federal support, broke with his partners, and died in 1863, at 37, as the road he had dreamed about for years was at last being built. For Crazy Judah-"studious, industrious, resourceful, opinionated, humorless, and extraordinarily competent"-Author Lewis has great respect. The line he surveyed across the mountains, rising...