Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...positive start toward what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called "tying the whole free world together." the U.S. and United Kingdom NATO representatives agreed to "urge an enlarged Atlantic effort in scientific research and development in support of greater collective security." President Eisenhower promised to ask Congress to amend the Atomic Energy Act so as to permit "close and fruitful" sharing of nuclear secrets between the U.S., Great Britain and "other friendly countries...
...personal ability as by quotas, e.g., five Catholics, three Protestants, one Jew. In twelve years the council has never defeated a Lawrence proposal. His Republican opposition is weak and disorganized; Pittsburgh's top Republican businessmen like Lawrence's record of civic progress, have given precious little support to his opponent in next week's election, former Common Pleas Judge John Drew...
...large budget has led directly to the most made-up issue of the campaign--taxation. Both candidates need money to support their programs, yet apparently neither will tax anybody to get it. Forbes has created the issue by claiming that Meyner, if reelected, will institute a state sales or income tax, and he has pledged himself to fight these new taxes. Under pressure, Meyner has also qualifiedly declared himself against the two taxes. And both have let it be understood that they will not increase taxes on real property owners...
...long train of Republican national figures, from Vice-President Nixon and three cabinet members down to a group of campaign strategists, has entered the state on Forbes's behalf. If Forbes wins, and most experts feel the race will be very close, it will be due to this national support, for he has not offered the voters anything substantially better than Meyner's sound administration...
...support this contention, the Admissions office cites the following figures: the Class of '57 was 53.3%, public school graduates, '58 was 53.9%, '59 was 52.6%, '60 was 51.4%, and the present freshman class is 50%. Taken out of context, the statistic that there are nearly 4% fewer public school graduates in the freshman class than there were three years ago is significant, but not alarming. But the figure takes on additional significance when it is realized that it reverses a post-war trend that was expected to continue. The new trend shows every sign of continuing unless the Board...