Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's most impressive display of political mastery, De Gaulle made each of his objectives support the others. By flying Rebel Organizer Jacques Soustelle out of Algiers and making him his Minister of Information, De Gaulle yanked the insurgents' sharpest tooth, yet at the same time gave the embattled settlers enough of a payoff to keep them submissive if not content. By tying the vote on autonomy for France's Black African territories to the vote on his proposed constitution, he obliged right-wingers to swallow his liberal colonial policy, at the same time picked up 9,000,000 African...
...year, was a critical blow, since it owns 14% of the agency's stock. Second largest stockholder (12.6%) is the Pennsylvania Railroad, which is also considering pulling out. If the Pennsy decides to do so, Western railroad officials concede that they will not be able to support the agency alone, will have to abandon...
...Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad asked the New Jersey Public Utilities Commission for permission to drop 40 suburban passenger trains, citing lower freight revenues which fail to support suburban passenger losses...
...head of the Civil Aeronautics Administration (1950-51) and the Civil Aeronautics Board (1951-52). When President Eisenhower overturned a CAB decision in 1955 and ordered Northwest off the Seattle-Portland-Honolulu run in favor of Pan Am, scrappy Don Nyrop flew into Washington, rallied so much political support that Ike returned the route to Northwest, admitted that he had "made an error." Last month Northwest, whose domestic runs had been limited to Northern states, opened a fat Chicago-Florida route, worth $13.5 million a year...
Kissinger deposes Bundy, who flees to the Dominican Republic, where he begins secret negotiations with Juan Peron. President Pusey accepts the offer of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and becomes Bishop Coadjutor. William Yandell Elliott seizes power in the interregnum claiming the support of the Summer School...