Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...booklet, the most important problem in the young thing's life will be "How to Set Up Housekeeping at Vassar," and is thus the subject of Chapter 1. Warning the freshman that when she first arrives "the room looks BARE," it counsels that she "use one doorknob for support and think ahead to the close of the first few weeks when your room will assume its own personality, look homelike, and be the place in which you will live...
...progress of the plans which are already the subject of the order of the court." Governor Faubus' statement had the sound of retreat: "The people of Little Rock are law-abiding, and I know that they expect to obey valid court orders. In this they shall have my support...
...nothing to go back to. But how would he hang on? Arkansas has a strong tradition against a third term for a governor. Moreover, his popularity was slipping: he had raised taxes, alienated his liberal followers by granting rate increases to railroads and utilities. He needed new support and he needed it badly. His solution: to win votes in conservative eastern Arkansas by setting himself up as a segregationist hero...
...round was the second half of a double barrel. Earlier, two pro-Knight officers of the G.O.P. State Central Committee sent California Republicans a letter bemoaning "impending Republican Party suicide," suggesting that Bill Knowland remove himself as a gubernatorial possibility. Knowland "cannot possibly muster the broad popular support which is necessary to win the governorship," the letter said, and if he insists on a knockdown, drag-out primary with Knight, "the resultant Democratic swing well might take not only the governorship but the other major constitutional posts, the U.S. Senatorship, the majority of the Congressional delegation and the Legislature...
...Hoffa could ever do for the union is to stand up right now and say he'll withdraw. But there's no chance of that." Said Tom Haggerty: "Well, it's up to us to dignify the name of our union." Franklin talked of the support behind Hickey and Haggerty and a third anti-Hoffa candidate, California's Democratic Congressman Jack Shelley of San Francisco, a onetime bakery driver who still pays Teamster dues. "There's enough for a snowball to get rolling," he said, "if Hickey, Haggerty and Shelley stand together...