Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mount Clemens, Mich., George Schwartz appeared in court to ask aid for his four children whom he claimed to be unable to support. "I'm sick, judge. I think I'm going to die," said he, whereupon he collapsed, died, was carried out of court. Quitter...
...main argument advanced in support of such an eligibility restriction is that it would remove men from athletic competition during their senior year, leaving them unhampered by outside distractions to concentrate upon the serious business of obtaining a degree. This movement has already gained a footing at Dartmouth in several non-athletic organizations, a notable example being the Dartmouth which now elects editors for their Junior year, and which is the principal advocate for the projected eligibility ruling. M. I. T. has a system by which all Seniors are restricted from getting more than a set total of points, each...
...Heywood Broun '10, Walter Lippman '10, and Kenneth Macgowan '11. After that the organization weakened and, at the time of the war, disappeared completely. LaFollette's campaign for president in 1924 centered the attention of socialist on a LaFollette Club. In the spring of 1928 a club for the support of Norman Thomas for president was discussed. This bore fruit in the fall of the year in the Thomas-for-President Club. After the election the members reorganized to form the Harvard Socialist Club. For a long time the club confined its activities to pamphleteering, speech-making, and generally harrassing...
...after Lords. The House of Lords decisively rejected E. F. T. last fall. Last week it came up friendless in the Commons. Out of the House before the debate began slipped solid Stanley Bald win, leader of the Conservative Party, to which Viscount Rothermere has now strangely switched his support after furiously championing the Liberals in the last election with little or no success...
They learn that His Majesty is receiving telegrams from many of the Captains General pledging support to "any Prime Minister in whom the King has confidence." The Dictator's game is therefore up. He and his all-night colleagues adopt a resolution that he has committed an "error" (i. e. the telegram) and should present the Cabinet's resignation to the King...