Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week-long meeting in Washington, more than 200 Catholic cardinals, archbishops and bishops attacked popular talk of a world "population explosion" as "a smoke screen behind which a moral evil may be foisted on the public." Denounced by the U.S. Catholic hierarchy was "a systematic, concerted effort" to build support for the use of U.S. public funds "in promoting artificial birth prevention for economically underdeveloped countries." The church leaders urged instead greater scientific efforts to feed and uplift backward peoples. U.S. Catholics, declared the bishops, "believe that the promotion of artificial birth prevention is a morally, humanly, psychologically and politically...
...Bang-Jensen himself, the victory proved to be costly. Shortly after the rooftop burning, Hammarskjold fired him for "insubordination." Nearing 50, despondent Povl Bang-Jensen set out in search of a new career to support his American wife and five U.S.-born children. He finally found a job with the CARE international relief organization in Manhattan...
...showdown, Gaitskell could count on the support of the conservative trade unions, though he knows that union domination of the party is one of the things that repels many voters. The unions, no longer underdogs, no longer able to count on public sympathy for slowdowns, strikes and restrictive practices, are still the most powerful vested interest in the party. They provide 75% of its funds, control 17 of 28 seats in the National Executive Committee, elect 93 of Labor's 258 M.P.s, and cast blocks of a million or more votes at party conferences. And Gaitskell also appealed...
Closing the debate, Nehru first gave support and tribute to Krishna Menon as a man who was sometimes wrong ("I know his faults"), but who had, nevertheless, "the deepest patriotism." Of himself, Nehru said dramatically: "If this house thinks my manner of carrying on in this situation is not adequate, then the honorable members are free to choose another Prime Minister." The result was a thunderous voice vote of confidence which drowned out the one or two "Noes" of stubborn dissenters...
...removal of Chinese from villages, Communist Chinese Consul Ho An drove out to rural Tjibadak and made a speech comparing Indonesia's actions to Hitler's massacres. Ho then continued on tour through the countryside encouraging the Chinese to resist removal, reminding the Chinese what great support they had given "the thankless Indonesians" in their revolution, and promising Peking's support...