Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Race-Baiter Gerald L. K. Smith, of food-rationing abuses during World War II. In 1945 President Harry Truman, a poker companion of Anderson's, named him Secretary of Agriculture, succeeding Henry A. Wallace. Serving at that post until 1948, Anderson was a staunch advocate of flexible farm supports, has stuck steadfastly to that position ever since, won the gratitude of the Eisenhower Administration for his support of Ezra Taft Benson. Elected to the Senate in 1948, Anderson stands in the front ranks of Democratic liberals working for civil rights legislation, has chaired the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic...
...University of Oregon, was Neuberger's only defender when Student Neuberger was accused of violating the honor system during an examination. In 1954 Morse delivered more than 300 campaign speeches on behalf of his old pupil. In 1956 Neuberger returned the favor, stumped the state in support of Morse. That year, led by Morse and Neuberger, Oregon Democrats elected their first Governor since 1934, took over the state house of representatives for the first time since...
...seemed that all was serene again. But last week Wayne Morse proved that he had lost none of his awesome capriciousness. Announced he, out of a clear blue sky: "I shall take to the people of Oregon in the 1960 campaign my differences with Mr. Neuberger. I shall not support him for re-election." Wearily, Dick Neuberger searched his mind for possible reasons for the new split. "Maybe he's jealous," he speculated, "of an article I had published in the Reader's Digest...
...that popular Socialist Carlo Schmid might win the presidential elections scheduled for July 1, Christian Democrat Adenauer three months ago tried to press his own party's presidential nomination on pudgy, cigar-chomping Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, the "engineer of the German economic miracle." When Erhard, with the support of Christian Democratic backbenchers, refused to let himself be kicked upstairs, it marked the first successful defiance of Adenauer in his own party...
...Prime Minister Macmillan there was nothing to do but fire off a cable to Lloyd assuring him of full support and confidence, and in Parliament to remark carefully in passing that "the Foreign Secretary and I hope to carry on our work together for a long time...