Word: supporter
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...unreal to most Puerto Ricans but which may seem real to persons outside of Puerto Rico, is approaching a point where it is beginning to do harm to our economic development program. The debate is spurious and it should be ended. Therefore, I have stated that I would support a plebiscite if all concerned would agree in good faith to accept, this time, the decision of the voters, and turn their attention to other issues of real and great importance to Puerto Rico. I am entirely confident that commonwealth status would be once more overwhelmingly endorsed by the Puerto Rican...
...Senate floor, Strauss was still in deep trouble. Clint Anderson was working furiously against him, had made the Strauss case a Democratic confidence vote in Anderson himself. Lewis Strauss, no man to sit idle, was doing his own spadework. dropping in on Senators' offices to enlist support. An informal tally last week showed 46 Senators favoring Strauss, 45 against-and seven key votes undecided. Among those undecided was Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, whose decision might well make the difference. But Johnson was in no hurry to make up his mind: he planned to study the long hearing record this...
...more than a year the A.F.L.-C.I.O. had been promising to support fair-minded legislation that would help organized labor clean its own rat-infested house. But last week the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council, meeting in Washington, sat in judgment on the relatively mild Kennedy-Ervin labor bill, passed 90 to 1 (Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater) in the Senate and awaiting House consideration. Labor's leaders turned thumbs down...
Coleman has a record of support for law and order...
Briefly, his commitment is to find moral and, more especially, monetary support for Algerian students, who have been chased from the University of Algiers, deprived of French Government scholarships in France, persecuted, arrested, and forced underground. The Student Union headquarters is now in Lausanne, Switzerland. Its proselytizing leaders are totally dependent upon NSA, WUS, and other student organization funds. This has been the case since 1954, when the Algerian student community declared its unanimous support of the nationalist insurrection...