Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...states and has sur prising strength in the South. "Kennedy is sober and temperate on civil rights." says Mississippi's Governor J. P. Coleman. "He's no hell raiser or Barnburner." Kennedy came out of nowhere in 1956 with a breathless, near-successful try. with heavy Southern support, at plucking the vice-presidential nomination out of Estes Kefauver's shaken hands. A few months later, after Dwight Eisenhower's election, Kennedy was set to thinking hard when Hubert Humphrey's wife Muriel remarked at a cocktail party: "If Stu Symington is the competition for President...
...sign to out-of-state Democratic delegate hunters: "I think if anyone did come in here and try to capture the primary, we'd meet them headon. If they lost the primary, as I'm sure they would, then they'd have no subsequent chance of support from the California delegation...
Frondizi decided it was time to throw away the carrot and use the stick. He won the support of the armed forces by agreeing to stop wooing Peronistas. Then, by radio, he made his "final plea" for an end to the strike, blaming "Communists" and "political groups who believe it is possible to restore the ousted dictatorship." When the plea failed, Frondizi acted. He fired Peronista-Wooer Frigerio. declared a 30-day state of siege, ordered a nationwide roundup of strike leaders. Within a few hours, 468 Peronistas and Communists were in jail...
Despite his protestations of innocence, a gang of Frondizi supporters invaded Gomez' office next day. wrecked furniture, destroyed papers and ordered Gomez to resign. At week's end he put his resignation in Frondizi's hands, and the national oil union decided to postpone its strike threat. Frondizi was still on top. He had lost his dubious Peronista support, and the Mendoza oilworkers were still on strike, but he had gained the prestige of demonstrated firmness...
Politically, CELAM will favor "flexible" democracy rather than the authoritarian governments it once preferred. It will support welfare programs to attract workers. Said one prelate: "The church in Latin America has awakened to the fact that Christian sociology is not incompatible with a great number of modern social concepts. The church believes in narrowing the gap between classes. There will always be rich and poor, but they need not be so far apart as they are in Latin America...