Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...views. If the Bible is merely the "time-worn literature of great men" it means one thing. If it is of "divine authorship" it is something else again. At Harvard, proud of the freedom that makes liberalism its fetish and unorthodoxy its boast, there would be found but scant support for the latter opinion. It is all the more instructive to note this latest example of the dominion over contemporary minds still retained by the spirit of past centuries...
...this case might perhaps be laid to our present industrial organization. But what are we to think when President A. Lawrence Lowell, asked by a minister to reconsider the case of one woman who is in dire poverty with her family of five depending on her as its sole support, replied that she and the others were dismissed because the State Minimum Wage Commission had complained that the university was employing scrubwomen at less than thirty-seven cents an hour...
...Howard Hyde Russell, one of the League's 14 founders in the library of Oberlin College in 1893, presided over a "support the President" luncheon. He called on speakers to tell briefly why Industry backed President Hoover's Dry program. Few kept to the subject; only one, Luren D. Dickinson of Michigan, mentioned the President by name. Dr. Arthur James Barton of Atlanta declared: "Three years more-shall I say seven years more?-of the present order of things at the White House and the whole country will be Dry in law and in fact...
...Jenkins, third candidate, managed to split the vote. The Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), part-owned by Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, brother-in-law of the candidate, had not committed itself beyond regretting the lack of a wet candidate. Should a wet Democrat arise, the Tribune might support him. Should he not, and should Mrs. McCormick be nominated, it might support her, although, as she has most carefully pointed out, no Tribune stock belongs to her. Even so, Chicagoans were surprised at the coolness of Brother-in-law Robert's potent paper toward Sister-in-law Ruth...
...Erich von Stroheim had the job. Now J. P. McEvoy and Director Millard Webb have done the story and Irving Berlin, with three others, the music. It is a dull, shaky graph of a department store employe's rise to theatrical fame. Mary Eaton's pretty legs support a corner of the plot, which sags whenever legs are not enough. Rudy Vallée and a technicolor ballet have been worked in for specialties. Best shot: Eddie Cantor in an old act from the Ziegfeld Follies...