Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fully believe that Dewey will be in the White House," he continued, "but I don't think the fight will be over." Voters should still support Wallace to build the third party, Matthiessen said...
...years, Bean concludes that 1946 was the statistical rock-bottom vote for the Democratic Party, below which the Democrats will not sink. In fact he adds that 1948 is actually the beginning of a new ebb tide for the G.O.P. and the start of another Democratic era. For support he points to the Congressional by-elections, the mayoralty races, and polls of 1947, all of which swung toward the Democrats and seemed to contradict the long-standing prediction of A. M. Schlesinger, Sr. that the U.S. is in for a Conservative...
...Wallace threatens to make heavy inroads in the minority districts of the pivotal states, and the Presidents ability as a candidate is still a question-mark. But on the Communist issue Bean suggests that the Third Party will draw most of the anti-Red fire. Catholics who did not support the Democratic Party in 1946, because of its supposed Communist affiliations, will in 1948 swing back into line, says Bean...
...case of the Palace of the Soviets, a huge skyscraper the government started building in the early '30s. The planners chose a likely site, blew up a cathedral which was in the way-only to find that the ground they had chosen was too swampy to support the projected building. All work had to be abandoned, cranes and tools were left to rust. When Welles told these facts to a Russian girl, she said bitterly: "You are trying to blacken our dreams...
Late last winter the joint Associated Harvard Clubs-Alumni Association Committee charged with considering commemoration for Harvard World War II dead has announced itself in favor of adding a theatre wing to Memorial Hall. In response to wide student support for an "Activities Center," expressed repeatedly in Student Council polls, the recommendation went on to suggest converting current Memorial Hall basement quarters of the modern Psycho-Acoustic Laboratories into "meeting places and offices for extra-curricular groups...