Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interfere. But Orval Faubus, hoping for a vote he might claim as popular approval for his wild attempt to prevent integration at Little Rock's Central High School, gave no promises. In fact, the word soon went out that his aides were on the telephone, whipping up support for the seven candidates supported by the segregationist Capitol Citizens' Council (included were the president and secretary of the riot-causing Mothers League of Central High School...
...present ones obviously aren't working." Its ears tuned to the Kennedy voice, the crowd fairly forgot its old wounds, smothered him with applause. Said Governor Docking confidently, of Kennedy's 1960 chances: "There isn't any doubt in my mind that he will have our support...
...confusion that some factories had shut down completely for want of supplies. Stalin had committed far worse blunders and survived. But Khrushchev, as yet, was no Stalin. Where Stalin, because of his absolute command of the secret police, was able to rule through terror, Khrushchev still depends on the support of the Communist Party. To retain his power, Khrushchev must still cultivate the good opinion of a majority of the members of the Central Committee. Even more important, Russia today is not the prewar Russia of Stalin. No longer a peasant nation, the U.S.S.R. now has 6,000,000 citizens...
Loans & Taxes. To reward the Socialists for their support, Gaillard reappointed Christian Pineau and Robert Lacoste to their posts as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Algeria. To his tennis pal and predecessor Bourges-Maunoury, Gaillard gave the powerful Ministry of Interior...
...Revenue Service cast its cold eye on the nation's expense account economy, and millions of U.S. taxpayers felt the chill. Henceforth, the collectors revealed last week, each taxpayer must list on Page One of Form 1040 the amount that his employer paid him for business expenses, and support the figure with a list summarizing total outlays for business meals, travel, entertainment, telephone, etc. If the expenses seem too big for the taxpayer's salary and profession, the auditors can demand a lunch-by-lunch, trip-by-trip account, force the taxpayer to pay income taxes...