Word: support
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the "Centr?! Labor Council threw its full support behind the teachers, poured 40,000 people into a demonstration at City Hall." You had merely to be present at this demonstration (as I was) to know that the vast majority of those present were parents and teachers, with a very small number of union representatives. You fail to indicate that 4,000 supervisors are out because of extremely serious reasons. More than 30 principals have been forced out of their schools by militant groups. They have been threatened with physical violence, and threats have also been directed at their families...
...ugliness, and the often misunderstood reasons behind U.S. participation in it, greatly contributed to the rebelliousness of America's young. More than anything else, it has been Hubert Humphrey's identification with the President's war policy that has cost him Democratic and independent support throughout the election campaign. Thus it came as the supreme irony of the Johnson Administration that, as Americans prepared to go to the polls this week to vote for another President, the agony of Viet Nam appeared about to be alleviated...
Agnew got swift support from other sources. Maryland's Treasurer John Luetkemeyer, a Democrat, called the editorial "inaccurate, misleading and wrong in its facts." The Baltimore Sun, the Washington Star and the pro-Humphrey Washington Post, which are expert in Maryland politics, also came to Agnew's defense...
Since tuition, private gifts and endowment income fail to balance their budgets, U.S. universities increasingly tend to rely on the Federal Government for financial salvation. The current congressional economy drive, which has sharply limited federal support for academic research, has thus created a situation that university officials variously describe as "serious," "desperate" and even "disastrous...
...Wallace message, in summary, was disconnected. He and the General sounded vaguely sensible and doughty as they chastized the two major parties and congratulated themselves on their grass roots support. Wallace was best reading from the Wall Street Journal with a sly smile, worst reeling off preposterous promises that farm prices would double with the country under his command...