Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allowed his Socialist ideas to warp his handling of the news. Still, the very fact that he was a Socialist had constantly bothered the Christian Democratic publishers of the big papers that control the wire service. With key 1961 federal elections drawing on, they finally drummed up enough support on the agency's twelve-man board of directors to sack Sänger...
...American League, the Cleveland Indians got good pitching and devastating hitting-they had been expected to have neither-and led the league after winning nine of their first ten games. Much of the batting support came from a pair of light-hitting journeymen infielders who had been considered all but washed up. Third Baseman Woody Held, 27, a .204 hitter with only seven home runs last year, hit five homers, knocked in ten runs in his first eight games. Shortstop George Strickland, 33, who actually retired in disgust a year ago and returned only at the urging of Cleveland...
...bill got no support from unions or industry. Steelworkers Union Chief David McDonald opposed the bill because he felt it would have "a stifling effect on free collective bargaining." Freezing prices to halt inflation, said U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, is "like trying to check the rising pressure in a steam boiler by plugging up the safety valve." The real cause of rising industrial prices since the war, charged Blough, is rising employment costs, which now "represent more than 75% of all costs." Furthermore, said Blough, the O'Mahoney bill would "diminish still further the profit incentive," could...
Some German businessmen were openly cool to U.S. investment. "American stock purchases overseas," said Georg Bruns, manager of the Frankfurt stock exchange, "often have a speculative character. We need sound, long-term support from .our shareholders. Also, Germany must export capital to rid itself of high currency reserves. There are already not enough shares to meet demand...
Divorced. Marlon Brando, 35, whose cinemumbling has earned him so much money that he agreed to make various payments-alimony, child support, medical expenses-totaling $685,000 in the next ten years; by Cinemactress Anna Kashfi, 24, once Joanie O'Callaghan of Darjeeling, India; after 18 months of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...