Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finance Minister's increasingly tough stand had the support of many Cabinet members and a large segment of Congress Party M.P.s. Even Krishnama-chari's personal political enemy, Home Minister Pandit Pant, has been privately buttonholing M.P.s to warn them that by jumping headlong into foreign affairs problems that do not concern India, the country has needlessly alienated those countries best prepared to help it, i.e., the U.S., England, West Germany. Pant's foreign-policy solution: stay with neutralism but stop meddling...
...realm of private conduct, not of criminal law." Said the Spectator: "The present law on this point is utterly irrational and illogical." The London Economist thought that "private homosexual behavior between adults does no medical harm to themselves and no harm of any sort to others." Also in support of changing the law were the Church of England, which found the report "thorough, courageous and liberal," and a Roman Catholic spokesman who said that the Wolfenden committee's recommendations were "only acceptance of the fact that the community should not, in general, pry into a citizen's private...
...opening speech last week, Dr. Manfred Bleuler estimated that one in every hundred people in the world is afflicted with schizophrenia. Medicine's war against schizophrenia, Bleuler argued, is as urgent as the drives against infectious diseases or cancer, but until now it has woefully lacked public support, largely because psychiatrists themselves differ so strongly about its causes and treatment...
Boston Merchant Prince Eben D. Jordan put up $700,000 for the building, agreed to support a company for three years if other nabobs bought $150,000 worth of stock. London Impresario Henry Russell became managing director, hired some of the top singers of the day. In its first 15-week season, the Boston Opera House staged 21 works, and the Transcript commented: "In Boston, grand opera is now endorsed by all the churches, and attendance at the opera places no one's morals under suspicion...
...August. the biggest dip since the Suez crisis, and its deficit with the European payments union reached $178 million (compared with West Germany's fat surplus of $280 million). The rush to turn pounds into marks has been so great that Britain had to spend scarce dollars to support the pound to keep it from a bad slump. Some British economists even suggested that the mark be declared a scarce currency at the October meeting of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, thus opening the way to severe restrictions on exports from West Germany...