Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word seeped out that Speaker Sam Rayburn, permanent chairman of the last three Democratic National Conventions, will not accept that honorific spot again at next July's convention in Los Angeles. The chairman, Mister Sam feels, should be conspicuously neutral, and Rayburn's own all-out support of Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson's presidential ambitions rules...
...detail about his plans and programs. He also has a warm friendship with Speaker Rayburn's top fiscal adviser, Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, able chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee. These leadership contacts, plus his unflagging attention to every staffer and stenographer, give Anderson more support in Congress than a member of a Republican Cabinet has any right to expect from a Democratic majority...
...Gaulle or Adenauer is gone, and that the Common Market structure of the Inner Six may well pass into history under the pressure of events. But despite these complacent prophecies, the evidence indicates that the alliance of the six continental nations has momentum on its side. Belgium, with the support of France, is now proposing that the Common Market mechanism be broadened to include political consultation. Greece, Turkey and Spain are clamoring to join the Common Market. As a pallid substitute of the Free Trade Area that it once demanded, Britain is forming its own economic league, an Outer Seven...
Nehru was still worried by Peking's militaristic intentions, but heartened by the support India was getting around the world. In Moscow, instead of siding with his Communist partner, Nikita Khrushchev was urging both sides to embrace and make up. The remote land is not worth fighting over, said Khrushchev at a Moscow reception, though "give a general any situation and he will find strategic significance in it. I don't trust generals' appraisal of strategic significance...
...many ways the most arduous of his career. His mission: to root out wholesale pilferage and embezzlement in the 650,000-man Korean army, which has reached so enthusiastic a pitch that an irate U.S. Defense Department report said that open black-marketeering in "virtually every commodity required to support a military machine"-short of tanks and artillery-was "beyond description...