Word: dependable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime Minister Eamon de Valera usually gets his bills passed in Eire's Bail Eireann (lower house) by a small majority. He has often been irked by the fact that his Fianna Fail Party, with 68 votes out of 138, has had to depend upon scattering Labor and Independent votes...
This afternoon in the stadium unusually large delegations from all Houses will clash in the annual spring track meet. So close in point totals to date are Eliot, Lowell, and Kirkland that the House cup may depend on the outcome...
...applause which greeted these sentiments was equaled next day when General Motors' President William S. Knudsen rose at the general session to relate G. M.'s troubles with labor and its effect upon business. Excerpt: "The Industrial Union in its present form has to depend on force in defiance of law. There are not many places in the U. S. at the moment where laws can be enforced to control the movement. The technique of the sit-down strikers is identical with that of the syndicalists of Europe. France has finally had to take a stand against them...
...recent internal strife, followed by an open break in the ranks of organized medicine as represented by the American Medical Association, has focussed public attention sharply on the rising costs of hospital care for the medically indigent. A large section of our population depend for their medical care on the free clinics which the majority of metropolitan hospitals run. As a result of the increasing specialization in medicine the expense of operating these clinics has doubled. The small group of doctors who precipitated the rift felt that the present policies of the Association would never solve the problem of financing...
...There will be no third party but which of the old parties will win will depend on the candidates presented to the people. . . . The party that presents the progressive candidate will...