Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Recognizing that he may not be his father's child of terror, and responding to genuine pressure from the Yemeni population for an end to feudal tyranny, Prince Badr at once set about winning the Imamate in an unheard-of way: enlisting popular support. He began unprecedented weekly talks to the worshipers in Taiz's ancient Muzaffariya mosque, paid a surprise visit to an army barracks and ordered a 25% pay raise and free medical care for all soldiers. But before Badr could say "Reform," disgruntled troops mutinied in Sana, declaring that the local governor had pocketed...
...Though studiously polite about his host, the Dalai Lama gently hinted that he was getting a bit impatient with Prime Minister Nehru's obsession with getting along with Peking no matter what. "I hope," said he, "that the government of India will give our cause the same support, if not more, as it has given to small countries like Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia." As for a meeting between Nehru and Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai on Tibet, that might be useful-"provided the actual events in Tibet are considered in true perspective...
Time after time, the payoff was extraordinary. One of Bach's students was shy, skinny, 17-year-old Mark Kauffman, owner of a rickety Speed Graphic and the sole support of his parents, two sisters and 14 brothers. "Go out and cover Eleanor Roosevelt," said Bach to Mark one afternoon in 1939. At a press conference, Kauffman snapped unobtrusively in the background, produced one of the most human, humorous pictures of the First Lady ever taken. A week later it adorned the cover of LIFE, and Kauffman...
...meet separately with the union's twelve local bargaining groups because it feels the only way to a contract is through top-level negotiations between the union and management four-man committees. If one thing emerged clearly last week it was that union-and-management jockeying for public support through advertising and publicity had replaced hard bargaining. In Washington, Labor Secretary James Mitchell called for an end to the negotiators' recriminations, and asked for "intensive bargaining" to avoid a costly, crippling strike. He pointed out what the steel industry and Dave McDonald well know: "You can never settle...
...York lawyer, civic reformer for half a century who urged pacemaking social legislation (childlabor, minimum-wage laws), headed a group of public-spirited New Yorkers (Fusionists) who successfully backed anti-Tammany Mayoralty Candidates John Purroy Mitchel (1913) and Fiorello La Guardia (1933), though a Democrat crossed party lines to support Tom Dewey for New York attorney general, denounce F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court-packing bill, promoted the careers of some of the leading jurists of his time (Benjamin Cardozo. Learned Hand) in an unflagging effort to improve the quality of the courts, maintained for a full century his reasoning...