Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan (now general counsel of the left-wing Farmers Union). Under that scheme, the farmer would sell his crops on the free market, and the Federal Government would send him periodic checks to make up the difference between market prices and support prices. Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge is sponsoring a Brannan-type measure to cover the six "basics" (wheat, corn, cotton, rice, peanuts, tobacco), and Minnesota's Humphrey is working on a broader farm bill that will include some Brannan direct payment gimmicks...
Last night, however, three freshmen announced their candidacies for the HYRC Executive Board, in opposition to some members of the Bayley slate. Roger Annenberg '62, Charles W. Long '62, and Philip C. Olsson '62 pledged support for Bayley, but attacked "the remnants of the Peterson machine...
...candidate meets the entrance intelligence requirements, but is inadequately prepared because of poor local schooling the fund may also be used to support him for an extra year of preparatory or summer school...
Although the fund is aimed at attracting students from non-college oriented areas, the recipient still must meet the regular admission standards of intelligence, for after 1964 the special fund will be exhausted and regular college scholarship grants will be used to continue support for students who entered with aid from this two year plan...
...list of American girls who have spread commotion merely by traveling abroad-from Pocahontas to Henry James's Daisy Miller-must now be added the name of Catherine Fremantle. Strong-souled and sturdily uppered, she is the daughter and soul support of the suet-brained information officer at a U.S. Air Force base in Spain. The trouble is that Catherine's old man has messed things up. To the natives, if a .fish floats dead in the river, it is because the yanquis have irradiated the water supply. If a badly timed flight of B-525 interrupts...