Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again. Should the present recession prove temporary, we would want to have them back, and fairly promptly. We can't have a deficit in both depression and boom. Life is not yet that wonderful. There are other reasons for favoring public works. Schools and aid to education, research support and facilities, health facilities, urban rental housing, urban redevelopment, resource development, metropolitan communications, are all deficient or lagging. We should first make jobs building the schools...
...Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight has been beset by more breakdowns in recent months than a three-wheeled buckboard in a spring thaw. First off, Goodie, who wanted badly to run again for governor, was knocked off his seat by Senate Minority Leader Big Bill Knowland, who, with the support of Deadeye Dick Nixon, overran the Knight riders with big guns and big ambitions. Goodie thereupon picked himself up and allowed as how, on second thought, he would just as soon head East for Bill Knowland's seat in the U.S. Senate...
Rounding up Republican support for the primary election was something else again: Knight struggled for weeks against the growing power of San Francisco's G.O.P. Mayor George Christopher, who had his eyes set for the Senate, too. Last week in San Jose, at the showdown before the quasi-official Republican state assembly convention, Goodie took a handy edge toward full endorsement by his party for the primaries: the assembly's fact-finding committee handed him the whip by a vote of 29 to 7; all that remained was support by full vote of the entire assembly...
...taxpayers who draw expense money and do not have to account to employers for expenses must report the facts and figures on their income tax returns. Those who do settle up with employers can go on as always, living a way of life that enables a man to support himself in the style to which his employer has become accustomed...
...Vatican's action was drastic enough to raise the ancient quarrel between church and state in Italy to sudden white heat. Communists and left-wingers charged church interference in Italian politics; Catholics all over the nation held parades and rallies in support of the bishop. The Vatican radio declared that "the church is being denied liberty in the exercise of its sovereign powers." In the Chamber of Deputies, a debate on a Communist-sponsored bill to curb "clerical interference in political affairs" ended in fisticuffs between the Christian Democrats and their Communist hecklers...