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Word: supportive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preference for Dewey among students, however, will hardly come as a surprise, as past CRIMSON polls have shown that Harvard students traditionally support the Republican standard bearer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dewey Gains Landslide Endorsement of Faculty | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

Professor Merle Fainsed, chairman of the Government department, will introduce both speakers. Roy F. Gootenberg '49 will chair the forum, which will be followed by a membership meeting of the HLU to debate support of Dever and O'Brien...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Congressmen Analyse Election Situation Tonight | 10/28/1948 | See Source »

...main attacks has been on the subject of price controls, which Herter voted to abandon in 1946. Another, of course, flays the Republican's support of the Taft-Hartley Act. Still a third criticises his "reactionary" stand in regard to recent Social Security legislation. (Herter did not recommend extending benefits to 700,000 newspaper venders.) O'Brien also protests his support of the Mundt-Nixon bill, the Reed-Bulwinkle bill exempting railroads from anti-trust suits, the Case anti-strike bill, and similar "anti-labor" bills...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: The Campaign IV. Herter vs. O'Brien | 10/27/1948 | See Source »

...short, O'Brien, who is a strong Wallace supporter, is following his master's footsteps all the way down the line, and is getting all-out support of the Bay State Progressive machine for his troubles...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: The Campaign IV. Herter vs. O'Brien | 10/27/1948 | See Source »

...logical man for such support. Although he has never before run for office, he has been a leader in local politics since the war, serving as Chairman of Boston's Citizens' and Labor Committee to Save OPA in 1946, and leading the Boston Tenant's Council to keep rent control, prevent evictions, and create new housing. He also served as Port Agent for the American Communications Association (CIO) for three years, gaining considerable labor support from that post...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: The Campaign IV. Herter vs. O'Brien | 10/27/1948 | See Source »

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