Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President travel in special trains, the Prohibitionist in a lower berth, the Socialist in an upper berth, the Communist in a day coach and the Socialist Laborite in a second-hand Chevrolet. The Union Party candidate travels in airplanes. Since he, with Radiopriest Charles E. Coughlin's support, "nominated" himself last June, freckle-faced William Lemke has been to 33 States, has flown some 30,000 miles...
...other, it could be said with certainty last week that it was about to help elect a President of the U. S. Reason: Partner Joseph Medill Patterson, as boss of the House's New York News (circulation: 1,600,000), has given Franklin Roosevelt the wholehearted support of the nation's biggest newspaper; Partner Robert Rutherford McCormick, as boss of the House's Chicago Tribune (circulation: 784,000), has made the nation's second biggest newspaper its most rabid anti-Roosevelt sheet. In a Presidential campaign, a house thus divided against itself cannot fail...
Roosevelt 6 Love Nests. On March 6, 1933 the tabloid News announced that it would support the new President for one year, do what he would. One of the earliest and most enthusiastic subscribers to the NRA newspaper code, Publisher Patterson found when his year of grace was up that Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal had become firmly fixed in his affections. Of his readers' interests he declared: "Roosevelt and the NRA have taken the place of love nests...
...Italy and Germany, while not actually breaking off relations with the Radical Madrid Government, agreed last week that the White Government whose troops were advancing on the capital "enjoys the firm support of the Spanish people in the majority of the provinces. . . ." Thus Rome and Berlin hinted their intention to recognize the Whites as the government of Spain as soon as Madrid should fall...
...fire plays out, or for satisfying certain personal necessities I must run across the meadow, I reminiscence most yearningly for my suite in Dunster House. It's the physical aspect of Oxford that impresses one first. Architecturally, Oxford is a mediaeval jewel; and there are enough dreamy Towers to support a colony of vagabonds. As for unspoiled country and sweet traditions: only yesterday I teased the bulls in Christ Church meadow and later fed the deer in Magdalen grove. At Wadham, where I am put, all animal life seems confined to the rooms, but of this I shall write later...