Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Willebrandt v. Hoover? On Capitol Hill, Senator Borah busied himself collecting data to support his charge against the Prohibition enforcement personnel "from top to bottom." Audible at the White House was a rumor that none other than Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, with a grudge against the Department of Justice and Attorney-General Mitchell, was supplying Senator Borah with his evidence for further assaults upon the Hoover administration's Dry record...
...economic maladjustment is that "we have turned out crowds of American-educated natives wanting American luxuries in a land unable to support them. . . . It is like putting a Rolls-Royce body on a Ford chassis. . . . We are doing the islands more harm than good. . . . They are doing us more harm than good. They are too poor to be an important market for our manufactured goods. . . . With the Philippines we are in a weaker military position than we should be without them. Our naval forces in the Asiatic waters could be swept off the seas by the Japanese. . . . Our military forces...
...support of this Declaration we pledge our lives, our honor, and all that we possess to the cause of our country and humanity...
...Briggs' characterization of the great majority of private schools as detrimental to the public interest has likewise much to support it. It is fair to question, however, whether those schools which have been planned to serve experimental purposes or to represent interests not in conflict with the interests to which the public schools are devoted, are as unjustifiable as Dr. Briggs has maintained. The history of education records many contributions to educational theory and practice from experimentation carried on in private schools; and large as are the contributions now being made by experimentation in public school systems, no insignificant credit...
...been, whatever defects they may have our schools have already contributed in society more than all other agencies combined. What they may contributes when so planned as to justify themselves in a modern world is greater, incalculabes greater, good. In this faith, in this conviction, in this knowledge we support the public school...