Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Party a unity of force which the Conservatives, holding aloof from all the huge class of manual workers can never attain. In England, however, not every laborer is a manual worker. British labor showed its superiority to a class of ditch-diggers and stevedores by gaining for itself the support of educated people. The days of the Conservative Party are numbered unless it can bring about some fusion with the working orders...
...tight, awful tight, tck, tck." Mr. Louis Hall, who has the role of Albert Kruger, the old German foreman who becomes imbued with the spirit of industrial democracy, does not give a very convincing performance. The acting of the other members of the cast is very poor indeed. The support is amateurish in the extreme; far more so than the work done by the Dramatic Club in "Mr. Paraclete...
...matters attacked Greek Letter Societies, voted for the United States entry into the League of Nations and the World Court, listened to villifications of contemporary religious education, listened to reports attacking the American Defense Society the National Security League, and the Klan, and more astonishing still, voted to withdraw support from foreign missions so that the money might be used to encourage intelligent birth control...
...Think of the possibilities involved in a chain of 500 newspapers under a single control! Such a faculty could be so maintained as no college could support; the greatest authors, artists, engineers, essayists and statesmen could write with authority on every question of importance, each of 500 papers getting the benefit of these great minds, while maintaining its individuality on purely local matters...
...made clear, contrary to statements in the daily press, that Harvard was not protesting against the simplicity of the song, but against its lack of real musical validity. And again contrary to statements in the press, it was pointed out that while Dr. Davison had promised Harvard support, he had never intimated any abrogation of Harvard's position regarding the unanimous consent rule...