Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Knowland has reason to believe that he is on the right track. In liberal, freewheeling California, where Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight boasts heavy labor support, Big Bill has bluntly been running for the gubernatorial nomination on a right-to-work platform as well as a seven-point scheme for tightening of federal labor laws. Although he plans no federal right-to-work statute, Knowland's federal proposals are aimed at other specifics, e.g., restrictions on uses of union funds, guarantee of a secret ballot in union elections and strike votes...
First, Reform. Sparked by the News and able Lawyer Alan Lowenstein, the high-powered group of bankers, lawyers, publishers and insurance executives started a citywide drive for reform, accepted tough, intelligent Incumbent Commissioner Leo P. Carlin as their man. With widespread city support, the reformers swept out the "five mayors" in city hall, voted in a strong-mayor charter-and Mayor Leo Carlin, who tightened budget controls, stabilized tax rates and formed committees to tackle housing, parking and property improvement...
...Many Arabs are very remote from Communist ideas," he conceded. "Is Nasser a Communist? Certainly not. But nevertheless we support Nasser. This is coexistence." Whatever the consequences of his diplomatic weight-throwing, Khrushchev did not care, as long as he helped perpetuate fear, suspicion and chaos in the Middle East...
...show of soberer responsibility, Algerian nationalists let it be known that Tunisia would speak for them officially in the forthcoming debate at the U.N. Tunisia, said Chief U.N. Delegate Bahi Ladgham, feels that the Algerian Front of National Liberation (FLN) has the support of the majority of Algerians. "We have kept in touch," he said, "and of course we are neighbors." What were the chances of success? Said Mr. Ladgham: "Each side must give...
...five years that he has been at the University of Nevada, Minard Stout, 49, has in one way chalked up a record that any university president might envy. He trebled state support coming from bond issues and appropriations, upped private gifts ten times. He raised faculty salaries 68%, set up colleges of education and business administration, a graduate school, a school of nursing, and a junior college in Las Vegas. But ever since he got Biologist Frank Richardson fired for accusing him of lowering academic standards (TIME, June 15, 1953), he has been the center of the bitterest storm ever...