Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House last week went Vice President Curtis and several Republican Senators to warn President Hoover of the bitter contest brewing in the Senate over his nomination of Judge John Johnston Parker to the U. S. Supreme Court. Undaunted, the President emphasized his sturdy support of Judge Parker by issuing from the White House a lengthy memorandum prepared by Attorney General Mitchell defending Nominee Parker, explaining the legal necessities of disputed Parker decisions, calling objections " extraneous...
President Washington Luiz Pereira de Sousa. Last week hope loomed. A $100,000,000 loan to support Brazil's coffee hoard in Sao Paulo (principal coffee state) was announced to be in process of negotiation by J. Henry Schroder & Co. of London and their potent Manhattan correspondent Speyer...
...house of Rothschild, Frankfort, Germany. As well as anybody Jim Speyer knew that a Secretary of Commerce by the name of Herbert Clark Hoover laid down what has since become an unwritten law of Washington: the Government will discourage subscription by U. S. citizens to loans intended to support a foreign monopoly...
...been completely changed by mechanical developments. Not so, however, education. Despite the constructive experimental work done by certain institutions and groups, educational procedure has remained substantially that of the "little red school house." Technical means are now at hand to alter this. If the Foundation can secure adequate financial support from individuals and groups interested in education it can lead this development on a plane worthy of the University. It can extend the work and influence of the University far beyond its borders, and place its standards, and the ideas for which it stands, in the forefront of a movement...
Interest in rugby football has by now grown to such an extent that the support of the H. A. A. will soon be necessary to insure its further development. The sooner the H. A. A. gives it this support, the sooner the sport will be given a fair trial in its adopted home...