Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President of the United States and the Congress; they had the right to assert that World War II, prior to the invasion of Russia by Germany, was an unjust war, an imperialist war and that upon such invasion it became a just war worthy of all material and moral support ; and they had the right publicly to express these views orally and in writing. They had the right thus to assert that the Government was at all times exploiting the poor and worthy workers for the benefit of the trusts and monopolies...
...Austria's people live in the capital. Unlike Paris on London, however, the city is unproductive. Its men of substance are doctors, lawyers, scholars, shopkeepers, or government personnel, but not manufactures or industrialists. Its former marketing and trading revenue is virtually non-existent. The rest of the country cannot support it either in food or function...
There are a few people who support aid to Tito because they believe that the loan dollars are non-political dollars, not aimed at Stalin. One cannot score many points for refusing them, but their reasoning shows important parallels with that of most other Americans and the State Department. These people, then, perceive the obvious economic fact that the $20,000,000 loan is financially feasible, and ignore the fact that it is motivated by political interest (witness the inescapably political timing of the project in the midst of Russian-Tito controversy...
...Tito offers us a chance to help support him, and we gobble up the chance, basically because he is feuding with Russia, and we hope to discomfort her by aiding...
Harris said that while the colleges are getting approximately the same amount of gifts as in pre-war years, those donations do only one-eighth as much work. He attributed this depreciation to increased national income and price levels, and to the fact that these gifts must support "about four times as many students as before...