Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, June 15, ". . . tapping the valuable support of 500,000 workers." I passed that by with a soft moan, and then in column 3, same page, I read: ". . . Lewis shook up a few metaphors and replied." Back I went to column 1, this time with a real moan. May I hear from your support-tapping expert...
...that they had reached "a loose working agreement" with the inflationist leaders, Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin and North Dakota's Representative William Lemke. To his new Manhattan headquarters went Father Coughlin to prepare for a radioration at week's end on "Why I Can Support Neither the New Deal nor the Old Deal." Questioned about a third party, the political priest explained that canon law forbade his actually starting one. But he readily admitted that a candidate was in view, that a platform had been submitted to him "through a third person," that the candidate...
...themselves from the impending move. At Capetown forthright General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, South African Premier, boomed: "If other nations like the United Kingdom and France are not prepared to face the possible outcome of continuing League Sanctions against Italy, that does not affect South Africa, which intends to support the League to the last! If the League now collapses, South Africa at least will have the satisfaction that the world knows South Africa was not among those countries which ran away from their duty to the League of Nations...
Clipped back Duff Cooper: "Should not Labor decide whether it intends to support or retard recruitment for the British Army...
...bawling Premier General James Barry Munnik Hertzog of South Africa. Last week Mr. Hertzog did his blatant best (at his exceedingly safe distance from Benito Mussolini) to make Mr. Baldwin seem cowardly in not pressing Sanctions against Italy. By a tremendous majority the South African Senate voted its undying support of the League of Nations, its defiance of the Conqueror of Ethiopia. And in London was Oswald Pirow. He was received in audience by Edward VIII. His Majesty's discerning former private secretary, Sir Godfrey Thomas, dined with Oswald Pirow, both being guests of the South African diamond tycoon...