Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work began yesterday preparatory to hoisting the new carillon into the Lowell House Tower when workmen started constructing a scaffolding and platform on the north side of the tower. The platform is being hoist to support either a steam or a gasoline engine. No date has as yet been set for the raising of the bells...
...protection of the country against foreign and domestic enemies, but for the improvement of youthful physique and the development of habits of obedience and discipline. Instead of attacking the colleges which are doing so much for the country, it would be in better taste for The Outlook to support and encourage them. In this connection, we understand that action is to be promoted in Congress to override the opinion of the Attorney General in connection with the Morrell Act, and grant to the colleges having obligatory training the financial benefits which were contemplated by the authors of that law. This...
...State Department the rebels were described as little better than bandits. Munitions and arms including a dozen airplanes were shipped to the support of the Brazilian federals. Statesman Stimson explained that, though this was the first time the U. S. had applied an embargo to a South American revolution, it was no precedent because the same method had been used before under international law to squelch rebellions in Mexico, Central America, China...
Illinois. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican nominee for the Senate, lost the support of Chicago's Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson (see page 17). Police riot squads had to be summoned to handle the crowds that turned out to hear James Hamilton Lewis, her Democratic opponent, at Soldier Field...
Mayor Thompson has long nursed a great hatred for the Chicago Tribune and its publisher, Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, brother of Medill. In last April's Republican senatorial primary the Mayor supported Widow McCormick for the expedient purpose of eliminating Senator Charles Samuel Deneen's political grip on Chicago. But the Mayor was no man to support a McCormick for actual election. Therefore last week he prepared a leaflet designed to turn Negroes from Nominee McCormick to Nominee Lewis. Unwilling to sign his own name to the broadside, he first attempted to induce Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest...