Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles next July, a total of 271, more than a third of the 761 needed to nominate, will come from the 13 Western states. Any candidate able to win the support of the Western states in a bloc will thus have a running start on the field, and last week California's Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown made just such a bid. He failed...
Peking (see cover), Khrushchev sounded a very different note. Said he: "If we are strong, it does not mean that we should resort to force to test the stability of the capitalist system. That would be wrong. The people would not understand and would never support those who took it into their heads to act in this...
...Warren G. Harding under the name of Griffith P. Hastings. Their portrait is a largely familiar one of a genial poker-playing mediocrity who is hoisted into the White House. His cronies are crooks whom he turns into Cabinet members and on whose strong right claws he leans for support. At the end the authors portray a Harding who commits suicide,* but not until he has been roused (by what he unwillingly learns) to responsible action...
...court, the Bembas had massive support. To plead their case, topflight Barrister Charles Russell, Q.C., carefully briefed by Catholic churchmen, had flown in from London. Listening intently in the tiny courtroom was Catholic Bishop Francis Mazzieri of Ndola, and packed beside him were clergymen of many denominations. All the Christian missionaries in the territory knew what might be at stake. There are only about 9,000 white missionaries in Africa (pop. 233,775,000). This means that native converts must carry the main burden of spreading Christianity, and they cannot function effectively if native courts can punish them for giving...
According to Williams, the key man in the NDEA loyalty issue is Senate majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D, Tex.), who voted for recommittal. If Johnson decides to back the repeal measure, perhaps in an attempt to gain Northern liberal support for a possible Presidential bid, the bill's prospects will improve considerably...