Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veto is widely expected when President Hoover returns from his Florida fishing. He will probably have a hard time mustering the Congressional one-third necessary to sustain his disapproval. Though he has never publicly committed himself on the issue, two potent members of his Cabinet, Secretary of State Stimson, onetime Governor General of the Philippines, and Secretary of War Hurley, who visited the islands as President Hoover's "eyes & ears" in 1931, have been loud in their opposition to turning 13,000,000 Filipinos loose. Common arguments against freeing the Philippines: 1) they are not economically or politically prepared...
...Constitution. ¶ Received from New York's O'Connor an amendment to the 1929 Reapportionment Act requiring all Congressional districts to be "contiguous, compact and of approximately equal population." The absence of such a provision in the present law compelled the Supreme Court last October to sustain gerrymandering in Mississippi's redistricting. ¶ Heard its first farewell speech from Georgia's "Lame Duck" Lankford. ¶ Passed District of Columbia bills to close local barber shops one day per week and to allow Capitol attaches Congressional automobile tags. ¶ Received from the Appropriations Committee the first supply...
Singing at football games is one of the best ways to sustain enthusiasm, and a large rooting section should be able to make a fine musical showing. However, singing in the Olympic stadium presents a big problem and at their best, school songs do not sound any too loud. Faced by the additional fact that the slow sale of student ticket books will decrease the usual size of the rooting section, it is apparent that something must be done to remedy the situation...
...size of the Supreme Court would be increased then loaded with a Socialist majority to sustain the legality of this program...
...Charles Shep herd Hutson. Los Angeles lithographer and grand jury foreman. His duty it was to stand back on the platform and hold up a series of numbered placards, to signal for the band, the lights, the balloons, the organ, etc., etc. as they had been carefully scheduled to sustain a half-hour "demonstration." When he held up the placard numbered "1" and blew a whistle, the band, poised at an exit with Governor Rolph at its head, marched on the floor. Organized pandemonium broke loose...