Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return to power legally and with broad support, De Gaulle needed the Assembly votes of the Socialists. The Socialist terms, expressed in a personal letter to De Gaulle by Vincent Auriol, 73, first President (1947-54) of the Fourth Republic...
...Dufresne came to Indo-China as schoolteachers. When Pa died, Ma was left with two small children to support, and she took a job playing piano in a café. For ten long years she pounded the keys and squeezed the centimes until she had enough money to get a farm-and then bought a plot of lowland that the sea invaded every summer, carrying off the harvest before it could be gathered. Indomitable, Ma built a wall of mangrove logs to keep the sea away, but a storm came and broke the wall in a single night, and broke...
...Cheever sees these goals, the importance of the alumni to the independent university is to maintain its independence of, or freedom from, "political pressure, financial worry and narrow thinking. Independence in this broad sense is largely dependent on alumni support--moral, intellectual and financial...
...post which Cheever has occupied since its creation in 1956 has as its purpose the strengthening this support by "providing a closer connection between the educational program in Cambridge and its graduates." As a liason officer he holds his post as a presidential appointee, yet works primarily with officials elected or appointed by alumni groups--Cheever has the task of communicating the University to various bodies of alumni...
Despite the tremendous acceleration of smaller gifts from alumni in the past several weeks, the Program still has not won, in sheer numbers of participants the degree of support generally accorded the Harvard Fund. About 20,000 alumni give annually to the Fund. One explanation of the hesitancy of many alumni to contribute at this time is the uncertainty among businessmen due to the impact of the recession. The controversy over the use of Memorial Church was seen as essentially an "intramural squabble," having no effect on potential contributors...