Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was not so much a challenge to the efficiency of the big farms (see BUSINESS) as it was to the insanity of the U.S.'s farm price-support program as now administered...
...never allowed to vote on the quota issue himself, because farmers with less than 15 acres of wheat were barred from the referendum; 4) does not believe in the farm support program as a matter of principle...
...office, and become their candidate for President of the republic? Replied Erhard: "I just had a beating in the sauna, and I don't want to get another in the voting. Will the party stand solidly behind me?" Ja, rasped the old Chancellor, you can count on full support. Helplessly aware that he might be setting himself up for the beating of his life, Erhard accepted "in principle"-so long as he would have a word to say in naming his successor at the Economics Ministry...
...extraordinary control he has maintained over German political life for the past decade. Erhard, 62, pink-jowled, cigar-smoking, fast-talking "engineer of the West German economic miracle," became Vice Chancellor only 16 months ago. He had given Adenauer his winning prosperity issue and his most effective stump-speaking support and was widely regarded as the Chancellor's likely successor. But the old man, still tolerating no rivals at 83, moved suddenly and swiftly to shove his most powerful minister up to the largely honorific office that President Theodor Heuss is to vacate next July...
...Paulo's U.D.N. at once pledged its support to Quadros. Across the nation U.D.N. Senators, Deputies, party chiefs, intellectuals and newspapers swung into line. Quadros loftily accepted: "I will need party support for the campaign, and even more to govern Brazil afterwards...