Word: backers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Economic Adviser (and Detroit banker) Joseph Dodge lick Japan's postwar inflation. The Socialists hinted that they might offer parliamentary support to Kenzo Matsumuru, one of the 27 Liberal Democrats who did not vote for the treaty, and who was recently feted in Peking as a backer of closer ties between Japan and Red China...
...Backers of Adlai Stevenson were not too grieved, because Stevenson has begged to be left out of the Oregon primary-although some saw Morse's entry as a way to cut the influence of Stevenson's ardent backer and Morse's archenemy, Fellow Senator Richard Neuberger. Backers of Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy were hurt some, but Teamster-backed Wayne Morse already has done nearly as much damage to Kennedy's chances as possible by attacking him up and down the state for his part in framing the Landrum-Griffin labor law. Most grieved were the friends...