Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platform unequivocally promised continuation of the bipartisan foreign policy. Republicans would "encourage" unity in western Europe; they believed in "collective security against aggression"; they would support U.N.; they "welcomed Israel into the family of nations"; they would "cherish" friendship with China; and "relentlessly pursue our aims for the universal limitation and control of arms and implements of war on a basis of reliable discipline against bad faith...
Monsters & Flim-Flams. The fight went on. In a stuffy conference room, John Taber fought a rear-guard action against ECA. Time & again the conference broke up in despair. But Senate leaders were determined. By Saturday evening, Taber's House support had fallen away. Abruptly, Taber gave in. The ECA got $4 billion (only $245 million short of Administration requests), to spend in twelve months, if necessary...
...conferees had agreed on a farm program. Prices would be supported at the present 90% of parity for one year under the House's plan; then the Senate's long-range plan providing for flexible price-support levels would go into effect. As the hot morning sun streamed through Capitol windows, the House adjourned, subject to recall by its leaders. At 7:15 a.m. the Senate followed suit. It had been in continuous session for 44 hours and 15 minutes, the second longest in history...
Chinese women were taking the blast in their dainty stride. Some even openly agreed. Said a pretty 23-year-old whose fiance had deserted the army to marry her-then was unable to find a job that would support them both: "If there's fighting to do, the soldiers had better not get married. Half their hearts would be in the family, and only half in the fight." But the prim young wife of a Shanghai bank clerk spoke sharply for the rest: "Whenever men get into trouble, they blame women...
...Passed the Fellows bill to admit 202,000 D.P.s over the next two years, a more generous formula than the Senate's discriminatory Wiley-Revercomb bill. ¶ Passed a farm-price support bill to continue present support policy until 1950. ¶ Received the Andrews draft bill from its Rules Committee, where it had been bottled up for five weeks...