Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Senators and its Senator-elect Josiah W. Bailey went through a characteristic series of molecular reunions and dissolutions on the question. Senator-elect Bailey, a regular Democrat, bitterly opposed the appointment before the Committee: "When the President gives a Democratic appointment to a man who has supported him the conclusion is that the President is using a Democratic appointment to reward a supporter of himself." But Senator Cameron Morrison, likewise a regular Democrat, who was designated to fill the post of late Senator Lee Slater Overman (TIME, Dec. 22), defended his friend and neighbor, McNinch, before the Committee and again...
...Minister of Pensions, Under Secretary of Agriculture and Under Secretary of the Interior, all members of the Right, resigned when they heard that Steeg had received Socialist support for his tottering Cabinet by agreeing to a disarmament program...
...cars by big manufacturers are common. New cars by independents are increasingly rare. Last week motormakers praised Mr. de Vaux's enterprise, pointed out the field is crowded, he will have to pedal fast and furiously to get ahead. But he has many loyal supporters in the West; he can appeal to the desire to support "home industry." Undismayed was William Crapo Durant who immediately proclaimed Durant Motors will supply the Pacific Coast, bringing more business to Lansing, Mich., which still awaits the increased business Mr. Durant promised when the Mathis contract was secured by Durant Motors (TIME, Sept...
Calm, dignified but surprising was an announcement made by the $1,162,000,000-in-assets Transamerica Corp. last week. It said that Transamerica's shares had been unduly depressed,† that a group of executives had formed a $20,000,000 syndicate to support the stock, that all shareholders were invited to participate in this syndicate...
...farmer was complaining to a friend that his land was the poorest in Slovakia and would not even support a partridge. Up flew a partridge. Said the friend: "There's one partridge, anyhow." "And was it not flying away?'' said the farmer...