Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collectivism' . . . The people want fair laws for labor. The selfish interests . . . mistakenly fear that their profits will be reduced, so they call that 'statism' . . . We don't care what they call it . . . The people want a fair program for the farmers, including an effective price-support program. The selfish interests . . . call this 'socialism.' We don't care what they call...
Truman Democrats by his blunt attacks on the socialistic tendencies of the Fair Deal. He stood for a conservative-liberal philosophy which could support certain federal grants for social welfare, but opposed any further spread of federal power or of the welfare state. On these issues the G.O.P. had a case to make, and in the Senate Ohio's Taft made it. His fellow Ohioan, Clarence Brown, called him "Mr. Republican." To Big Labor and the Truman Democrats he was both a leading Republican and an uncompromising obstacle in their paths: they were determined to knock...
...they had previously agreed to relinquish, as well as the greater share of Austria's oil-refining capacity and oil-exploration areas, of which they were to have received only some 60% under the treaty document." So far, Russia's only "concession" has been to drop its support of claims to Carinthia made by Tito's rebellious Yugoslavia...
...christening ceremony and the photographers' floodlights had been a little too much last December for Prince Charles of Edinburgh. He had howled loud and long. But he was older now, all of nine months. Last week, without the moral support of the presence of his mother, Princess Elizabeth, he stood up well under the ordeal of his first boughten haircut at Birkhall, near Balmoral, Scotland, where the royal family is vacationing. His golden locks were trimmed enough to give him "a young gentleman's appearance" by Felix West, of Trumper's, London, who also cuts the hair...
Bombs on La Paz. Before Mollinedo could strike outside the capital, insurgent army officers and civilians moved on police headquarters and other government buildings in every provincial capital. By the end of the first week's fighting, they had picked up support from the Trotskyite Workers Revolutionary Party (P.O.R.), bombed La Paz three times, taken over the important cities of Sucre, Potosí, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba...