Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definite progress, it was also an admission of the servile status in which for 20 years Rumanian minorities have been kept. They are now granted elementary civic rights. For the first time they can be elected without racial disqualification to State and civic jobs. The State will lend its support to public schools where teaching is in the minorities' tongues. Most priceless boon: Moslems, Jews, Unitarians, etc. may now enjoy full religious liberty in Rumania...
...where he can find his 'Charlie McCarthy' with personal power enough to stand any show of perpetuating the dynasty. So, as a jovial precedent-breaker, I expect him to try himself." ¶ Senator Holt of West Virginia: "I am sure that those who supported the La Follette anti-third-term resolution during the Coolidge Administration will be very glad to support a similar resolution now." ¶ Cartoonist Norman (William Norman Ritchie) of the Boston Post, more blunt, drew a chortling Franklin Roosevelt unctuously declining a third-term cup of cocoa in the New Deal cafe...
Neutral military experts deduced from the information available that Chinese artillery has surprised the Japanese by its inaccuracy. Frail and thinly armored Japanese river gunboats had apparently been able to support the attackers. In Hankow, 135 miles above Kiukiang. the flight of the whole civilian population into the interior was ordered and organized last week by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Most Government clerks and records had already been sent 650 miles further up river to Chungking. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui gave a farewell party to the press before he departed, followed by the envoys of the Great Powers...
...added that of course they would "welcome" the Viscount. Leading French Newspundit Pertinax (André Géraud) bitterly deplored the creation of a situation in which both Prague and Paris will have to follow the lead of London. For most commentators agreed that British public opinion will never support the use of arms to aid Czechoslovakia if the recommendations of Lord Runciman are against...
Faithful to a lifelong passion for self-effacement, O. K. Bovard kept to himself the nature of the differences with Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr. It had been assumed, however, that he liked neither the Post-Dispatch's support of Landon in 1936 nor the deepening conservatism of its editorial page, for which he occasionally wrote, but over which he never had control...