Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year he campaigned about the state from the back of a 1955 Chevrolet and from $2.50-a-night hotel rooms to capitalize on this record. "My opponent does not know what it is to lose. I do. And I'll welcome the support of voters who do too. I'll take the losers . . . I'll take the debtors . . . I'll take the Milwaukee Braves . . . The next Senator from Wisconsin should be one who knows defeat...
...major force behind the weak civil rights bill passed by the Senate a fortnight ago was the support given it by leaders of such organizations as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Americans for Democratic Action (TIME, Aug. 19). A major reason for last week's agreement on a stronger bill was the angry reaction of Negro leaders against the organizations' capitulation...
While Foreign Minister Christian Pineau flew off to enlist support for the idea in six South American capitals and Washington, the Arabs said that they are interested in hearing only one word-independence-and that each day without it widens the gap between Arab and Frenchman, drives moderate Arabs to relentless choices, and makes more difficult an eventual reconciliation in peace...
...newspaper strike, the independent Mailers' Union agreed to go back to work after Teamsters Union Vice President James R. Hoffa flew back from Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to negotiate a settlement. The mailers, locked in a jurisdictional dispute with the I.T.U., had closed all three Detroit papers with support from Hoffa's teamsters...
...other hand, Banker Land sees compensating advantages when producers have more nonproducers to support. Business recessions may tend to be less severe. "Consumption by children and old people is relatively necessitous and nonpostponable; when they make up a greater segment of the total population, the downturns in total consumer buying may be less pronounced." And "population growth minimizes the effects of overexpansion made by business. It doesn't take as long to grow up to excess capacity when population is rising...