Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Mr. Kelley avoided specification to support his charges, he evidently had lots more to say. He intimated that he would continue to focus "public opinion upon the practices by means of which billions of dollars of Colorado oil property have already wrongfully passed out of the hands of the Government...
Those who know Commissioner Mackin tosh were not surprised at the commotion his challenge stirred up. He first proved himself an eminent disturber when he at tended the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1920 as a delegate from the State of Washington. Primary voters had instructed him to support the presi dential candidacy of Senator Hiram John son of California. Disregarding his politi cal pledges, he boldly boomed Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts for the Presidency. It was largely on the strength of his agitation that Governor Coolidge was nominated for the Vice-Presidency. President Coolidge later rewarded...
...capital of the U. S., was notoriously cold to his candidacy. Nevertheless over its own favorite son he managed to carry the State without which only one President (Woodrow Wilson in 1916) has succeeded in reaching the White House in the last half century. Without New York's future support President Hoover would find renomination and re-election exceedingly difficult...
...significant that the question of their respective stands on the liquor issue has been the outstanding one in the consideration of the various candidates in the Massachusetts senatorial election Whether Mr. Eben S. Draper's decision to withdraw his support from William Butler, Republican nominee, springs from political spite or not, it at least adds weight to the growing anti prohibition sentiment along the North Atlantic seaboard. In New York, former Attorney General Tuffle has been nominated by the Republicans to run for governor on a repeal platform, while Democratic Governor Roosevelt has finally felt that wet sentiment was more...
Massachusetts. By a scant 7,600 votes William Morgan Butler, dry onetime Senator, won the Republican Senatorial nomination over his chief rival Eben S. Draper, Wet. Nominee Butler, old friend of Calvin Coolidge, had the support of the Old Guard, Candidate Draper of the Young Guard. The total Wet Republican vote in the state was some 15,000 more than that by which Nominee Butler won. Without difficulty was Republican Governor Frank Gilman Allen renominated just a few hours before his wife bore him a daughter...