Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present: Vice Chairman Joseph Rauh Jr. of Americans for Democratic Action; Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; spokesmen for United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and International Electrical Workers President James Carey. The Hobsonian choice before these good liberals: whether to support a civil rights bill that had been so weakened by the Senate's Democratic leadership that the South was putting up only token opposition (TIME, Aug. 12) or to fight for the tough bill that the Administration and Republican leadership had backed. Their answer: take the weak bill...
...have great unconscious wisdom." Joan Croydon repeats her warm Broadway interpretation of the priest's housekeeper. Adele Thane makes the most of Mrs. Potter's one scene. And Maureen Hurley brings the right amount of neuroticism to the part of Sara. Edmund Roney and Lawrence Spector give capable support as the prim banker and the easy-going roommate...
...Thirst. Jesuit Davis is distressed at what he feels is a Jewish tendency to put Jewish interests before those of the rest of society. As examples of this he cites Jewish opposition to inclusion of a question about religion on the U.S. census and the lack of public Jewish support for the Catholic position in the Hildy McCoy adoption case (TIME, April 1 et seq.). "Too often . . . the question Is es gut far Iden? (How will it affect the Jews?) seems to determine official Jewish action on public issues...
...attempt to dump him as no "liberal," countered: "I'm a liberal within limitations of the Constitution. I'm sure the people of Georgia want a voice in the Senate, not an echo." But over the desegregation issue his voice was too moderate, and Georgian shifted support to former Governor Herman Talmadge, forcing George to bow out. Walter George said: "I think I'm capable of some good work yet; I would like to be useful up to the end," and went off to service as Dwight Eisenhower's ambassador...
...ignore. The fact: too many farmers are trying to scratch out a living on farms that are too small to be profitable. From 1930 to 1954, the average U.S. farm jumped from 157 to 242 acres. But with the cost of mechanization, even that is not enough to support a single family in many areas. And in hundreds of scrubby farming counties, the cultivated area per farm averages as little as 8½ acres...