Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reversal of French leftist sympathy, grew out of the recent coal strikes which tied up more than 16 percent of the French Labor force. Socialist and Catholic Labor movements withdrew their support, Grabar added, when they became convinced that the stoppage was prompted by Communist hostility to the Marshall Plan, and not wage demands...
...coup had been bloodless: all important garrisons had pledged in advance to support it. General Odria flew up to the capital in an army plane, was met by 2,000 cheering Limeños and a military band. That night, in a kind of radio fireside chat, he talked vaguely of better times for labor, agriculture and the army, promised that elections would be held "after a brief transitional government." But he gave no assurance that Peru would continue the experiment in democratic government begun under Bustamante. (Said Bustamante in his farewell: "Democracy is like the sun; its eclipses...
...Security. In Philadelphia. Car Thief Arthur R. Schauer finally persuaded Judge George A. Welsh to double his six-month jail sentence so that he could qualify for a prison job and help support his family...
...think Harvard alumni want and will support a significant tribute--Thus we propose, along with the Alumni Bulletin, that you as an alumnus be polled so that you may determine what is to be the Harvard World War H Memorial...
Would it not be wiser for America, then, to assist Chiang Kai-shek-outright, check the Commiunists' advance, and then support the liberals if you wish? Chiang is much easier to deal than the Communists, especially if you make military support to him conditional to his agreement to reform his government. . . . Oliver...