Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Viewing the Roosevelt landslide as representing in part the cession of "proletariat" votes to combat an envisioned close race with the forces of "Fascism" latent in Landon support, the John Reed Society last night concluded a meeting in Phillips Brooks House to interpret the results of the election...
...Germany obtains Italian support for her contention that Russia should be excluded from the drafting of a new Locarno Pact by Britain, Italy, France and Germany only. Belgium, which has just resumed her historic Neutrality, would also be left out; France would be virtually detached from her alliance with Russia; and the "New Locarno" would be a great step toward setting up the hierarchy envisioned by Il Duce's Four Power Pact...
While Pennsylvania is the traditional Central rival, the two roads stood shoulder to shoulder on the question of the 2?-per-mile passenger fare, regarding B. & O.'s support of the rate reduction as nothing less than traitorous. New York Central's objection to B. & O.'s hookup with Keeshin was founded on sound competitive sentiments. It can provide B. & 0. with what amounts to an established store-door pickup-delivery system, a service New York Central is not ready to offer. Furthermore New York Central has a heavy stake in a service which provides shippers with...
...have been riots at the railway as the troops embarked for the front; the daughter of a town official has robbed her father and started for Paris; an embittered young soldier, wounded, has broken with his parents. In all of them, as in himself, Cripure finds more than adequate support for his belief that human beings are contemptible...
...unions would play a more sensible hand by keeping their strike from assuming gigantic proportions. A recurrence of the terrifying tactics of the general strike of 1934 can only breed the fear and distrust of the people as a whole and alienate the opinion of those who might logically support labor's claims. The principles for which the unions are crusading, namely fair treatment in hiring employees and decent wages and living conditions for seamen, are as sound as Gibraltar...