Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easily imagine what a torrent of protest you must be receiving and simply want to send you my sympathetic support. You have held the mirror up to nature with an unflinching hand, true to your motto "TIME brings all things." Not all things are good, and the straighter we look the bad ones in the face, the sooner we will achieve that state of perfection for which destiny must intend...
...There are no differences of view between the President and our delegation in London. The delegation has always had, and now has, his unqualified support and authority. The delegation is in London patiently to explore every suggestion made and every possibility that leads to the great purpose of the Conference, that is, the reduction and limitation of naval arms and the preservation of the peace of the world. It is the high hope that a plan for so doing can be evolved...
...numbers of voters. The outcome of next week's primary seemed to depend largely on organization strength. Mrs. McCormick had proved herself a remarkable statewide vote-getter in 1928 when she rolled up some 1,700,000 votes which elected her congressman-at-large. Now she has the support of potent elements of the regular state organization, including Percy B. McCullough, Chairman of the Republican State Committee, and Barney W. Snow, Chicago G. 0. P. leader...
...Mellon's 75th birthday party in Pittsburgh. Mr. Lewis was present. He watched the Mellon leaders offer the governorship over his head to three men, saw each turn it down. Before he left the party, it was made entirely plain to him that he could expect no Mellon support...
Practically all of the world's great composers had, at one time or other, patrons who provided their material support in order that genius might flourish unhampered. The custom is now outworn but last week in San Francisco a semblance of it reappeared when heirs of the late Jacob and Rosa Stern, wealthy Jews, established a fund whereby Jewish Com- poser Ernest Bloch will be endowed for the next ten years at the rate of $5,000 a year. Composer Bloch is regarded by many as the greatest U. S. composer.* Yet his livelihood has had to come largely...