Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, from the stand-point of contemporary rationalizers of the New Deal, there seems to have been a great deal of groping with, of course, a maximum of philosophical and theoretical support for this blind exploring. But nowhere, try as Schlesinger may to produce one, does a coherent body of thought emerge to tie up the loose ends of the New Deal. There seems substantial validity in the view Edmund Wilson took of the New Deal in 1934: "The work which the New Deal is attempting--the stocktaking of the country's resources, the inquiry into the condition...
MeBAC goes so far as to say that the Arts Center, far from damaging other local theatres, will stimulate all drama trade in the area. But the prestige of state support, which MeBAC would give to the Cambridge Drama Festival, would surely hamper the fund-raising and actor-recruiting programs so vital to organizations like Group 20 in competition with the CDF. And financial records show that competition between two repertory theatres in the Boston area means a loss for both...
...support from the 17,000 Aluminium shareholders. Portal promised a sizable dividend boost. In a final desperate gesture, Portal called in 14 leading old-line British banks, who claimed to control 2,000,000 of Aluminium's 9,000,000 shares, to help in buying more shares. The banks said they would pay $11.48 a share for one-half of each stockholder's holdings if he would keep the rest three months, i.e., until the fight was over. This only made stockholders madder, since it showed that the original price to Alcoa had been much...
Given this situation, would the United States have recognized Urrutia's government? If not, how would the Administration have justified the support of a dictator who obviously lacked the support of his countrymen? If recognition had been extended, what would have been the essential difference between this situation and a similar one now in effect in the East China Sea? James R. Fisher...
...President Pusey asserted that in order to avoid keeping college teaching "a depressed profession" any longer, higher education will have to seek increased help "from all the sources of support which have thus far been developed," including endowments, students and their families, alumni, business, foundations, and government...