Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John J. Toomey (D-Cambridge), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, yesterday opposed "selling any land whatsoever to Harvard" or to any other untaxable private interest." Toomey declared that he would support any legislative measure forcing the MTA to sell its property by competitive bidding after notifying officials of the town involved...
Potshots and all. Kennedy was obviously running first and fast. Said National Chairman Paul Butler, a perennial Stevenson backer, last week, "I would be less than fair if I did not say Senator Kennedy has substantial support throughout the country. Perhaps more than any other potential candidate...
...Brother Robert, chief counsel for the Senate labor racketeering committee, walked into a political hornets' nest when he said, at a Milwaukee press conference, that an unnamed "union" and "a large company" had, "within the last year," offered effective political support for brother Jack if Bobbie could get the McClellan committee to play ball. The offers, said Bobbie, were "dismissed," reported to Brother Jack-but not to Committee Chairman John McClellan. In Washington, South Dakota's Karl E. Mundt, senior G.O.P. committee member, demanded that "the whole nauseating affair be fully explored and publicly exposed...
Down the River? The toast was premature. Although the Senate seemed to be in hand, 29 assemblymen-nearly a third of the G.O.P. majority-announced (what with elections due next year) that they were still unwilling to support Rockefeller without additional cuts...
Aidit's strength, outside a disciplined party of up to 1,500,000 members, rests on half a dozen well-infiltrated Indonesian mass organizations that loyally support Communism's interests. They include: the labor confederation SOBSI (2,750,000), the Pemuda Rakjut youth organization (800,000), the Perbepsi veterans group (200,000), the peasant B.T.I. (250,000) and the Gerwani women's movement (75,000). Western intelligence officers also believe that there are 300 secret party members in "sensitive and unsuspected" government positions...