Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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JAMES NOLAND, 28, is a small but energetic World War II veteran of Bloomington, Ind. He rallied coal miners and other labor support against five-termer Gerald Landis, who voted for the Taft-Hartley law and who was in line, if elected, to become chairman of the Labor Committee. The Democratic gain in Indiana: five seats...
...South, the Dixiecrats were scrambling for cover. Over the flat cotton lands rose the wail of countless Dixiecrats protesting that they had considered themselves Democrats all along. Candidate J. Strom Thurmond wired Truman: "You are entitled to the united support of a united people," then quickly explained to newsmen that "the fight was within our own family...
...Little Machine. Tacho was not too worried. First of all, he had U.S. support; the stability-loving U.S. State Department wants no filibustering in the Caribbean. Besides, the rules of the U.N. and the Pan American system ban direct attacks by any American country against a neighbor. Tacho could also thank the U.S. for the best army in Central America. After the U.S. Marines moved into Nicaragua to protect U.S. interests in the Coolidge administration, they reorganized and trained Nicaragua's army. Before the Marines pulled out in 1933, the crack new Guardia National was the country...
...because 65% of the press (with almost four-fifths of all U.S. readers) had supported the losing candidate. By almost the same percentage, the press had supported the Republican candidates of 1936, 1940 and 1944.* (Historically, the press has always been against strong Presidents like F.D.R., mistrusting their great power as a threat to democracy.) It was the privilege of the press to support whom it pleased; but it was the duty of the press to find the news and report it correctly...
...other hand, commodity futures markets, which had been sagging for weeks, went up. Cotton jumped $3.85 a bale, wheat as much as 4¼? a bushel, and butter, eggs, etc. all made sizable gains in the expectation that the Democratic victory meant a continuation, perhaps for years, of high support levels for crops...