Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action, Congress rejected the recommendations of Defense Secretary James Forrestal, who had suggested a 66-group Air Force and a "balanced" military establishment; e.g., more ground troops to support overseas air bases. Forrestal never made too good a case. Air Secretary Stuart Symington, pleading for the 70-group program, had made his. It was the first time in eight years on the tricky playing fields of Washington that Forrestal had lost the ball on a fumble...
...down. Taft's showing was enough to keep him from being knocked out of the running entirely, but it was not good enough to shoot him into the lead. And the best that Tom Dewey could hope to do in Oregon was to recover some of the popular support he had lost after Wisconsin and Nebraska. Actually the primaries had decided nothing: Dewey was still the probable leader on the first ballot, followed by Stassen and Taft...
Steve Howe, currently flashing a sharp 465 batting average, should back up Clay's consistently stellar pitching with support at the plate...
Monetary policies of the Administration received support in the poll. Profits of business were generally considered too large, and pollees favored no large-scale reduction in taxes, with a slice advisable only after all government commitments have been accounted...
...strikers' morale is low," Gootenberg said last night, "and we went down there to get them some publicity--to show some outside support...