Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the Senate voted. On the peril-point amendment, the vote divided almost exactly on party lines; only three Democrats-Colorado's Ed Johnson, Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas-crossed over to support the solid front of 35 Republicans. It was not enough. The amendment was defeated...
...long, the phone rang in the Pentagon office of Navy Captain John G. Crommelin Jr. To each caller, blond, 46-year-old Captain Crommelin replied abruptly: "This telephone is tapped-you know that." The callers were fellow officers proffering him support. For John Crommelin had defiantly voiced what many of them thought, but had not dared to say: that the Navy's aviation was being destroyed under the guise of unification...
Crommelin got some hearty support. Five-star Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, after lunching with Crommelin in his Washington home, declared: "He deserves the help and respect of all naval officers." In the Pentagon, there was stunned silence, then a rustle of conferring Navy brass. Hastily, Crommelin was yanked from his job with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but was plopped into a better billet: director of naval-aviation personnel. It was a rear admiral...
...scheduled to make a fortnight's tour of Spain, including Andalusia in the south, where his ancestors once ruled. A Spanish man-of-war will bear him home. Thus shrewd Francisco Franco would finish an important knot in the net with which he is trying to snare support in the Arab world...
...North China, the Sino-Soviet Friendship Associations were way ahead. Dairen's association claimed a membership of more than 200,000. This month in Dairen is "Sino-Soviet Friendship Month." A campaign is under way to have citizens "publicize, learn from and support Soviet Russia!" Peiping recently staged a gigantic Soviet exhibition "to introduce systematically the great socialist construction of the U.S.S.R." Madame Sun's presence and her exhortation for Chinese and Russians to march ahead as "comrades-in-arms" topped the propaganda campaign. For her labors, the Red press hailed her as "the Exalted Widow...