Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would the President fight to get his complete program, presumably including his $73.9 billion budget, through Congress this year by quietly threatening to withhold election support from Congressmen who opposed him? "No," said Ike. "I don't deal on that basis. I do every possible thing I can in the way of consultation, communication, both in Congress and with people outside of Government, to persuade them of the soundness of [my] views ... I will continue to urge and argue far more behind the scenes than in front, but, nevertheless, I will argue . . . as long as I have strength...
...seems probable that "some central mechanism" for administering the exchange will be organized in the academic world, Langer commented, adding that financial support for the expenses of the scholars might be sought from the foundations. Langer, it is assumed, will continue to coordinate Harvard's activities related to the Russian scholars. Harvard's representatives will, under the agreement, go to the University of Leningrad on a reciprocal basis...
...equally effective brake on surplus farm production is the proposal to set the range of price supports at between 60 and 90 per cent of parity. With this weapon, plus elimination of "escalator" supports, Benson admittedly has the power to threaten economic ruin to large areas of agriculture. Yet Congressional charges that Benson wishes to become an agriculture "czar" confuse the threat with his long range goals. An anti-surplus program would eventually stabilize production and demand such that government support and control would be reduced, not increased...
...other hand, growing technological improvement has created producing power in excess of demand. While price support has encouraged the highly efficient agricultural supplier, it has also kept large numbers of people "down on the farm" who would have been put to better use somewhere else in the economy. And their purchasing power would have been diverted as well. Thus, any discussion about "helping the farmer instead of eliminating him," to quote Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, should distinguish between farmers worth helping and those worth discouraging. The Eisenhower farm proposals can deal with both as painlessly as possible...
...This latter," he says, "would include more adequate financial support, yes; but also fresh efforts to strengthen the position of study in our society, and especially to dignify and reward more properly the profession of the teacher...