Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority because the Assembly is fragmented into numerous antagonistic political factions and is recurrently hamstrung by the obstructive tactics of 142 Communists. General de Gaulle, moreover, is probably one of the few leaders who would stand a chance of getting such a reform bill passed, because his support cuts widely across party lines, due to the myth of national military leadership that surrounds his name...
Similarly, in Algeria, the general is the only force holding the rebellious French generals back from an active revolt against the central government. Unlike the career politicians, he commands the support of the military, and will hopefully heal the breaches between Paris and Algiers and Corsica. More important in the long run, his statements and those of his spokesmen have indicated that de Gaulle will attempt to work for a settlement in the long-standing Algerian war, rather than give in to right-wing demands for an even stronger military effort, as many have feared. Here, of course, he will...
...Therefore," he said, "it was a choice of making even further cuts in budgets all along the line, thus, in effect, putting every sport in an unfair position when competing with the other teams in the league. Or we could cut down drastically on our support to these teams, at least providing for the minimal needs of the other sports. After careful consideration, we chose the latter course...
Donald M. Felt '49, assistant Director of Athletics, yesterday explained further the Athletic Department's decision to reduce drastically the support for these two sports...
...over almost before it began. Within three hours after the polls closed, he knew he had lost all of crucial Philadelphia's 58 wards, fallen behind by 88,000 votes to Pretzel Manufacturer Arthur Toy McGonigle, 51, a hard campaigner (TIME, April 21) who had the support of the state's regular Republican organization under vigorous Chairman George Bloom. In the final count, Stassen carried only 16 relatively small counties out of the state's 67, lost to McGonigle by 574,000 votes...