Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration, heedful of its labor support in the election, wanted to bar the hated word "injunction" from any labor act. Attorney General Tom Clark had said reassuringly that the President had "inherent" powers to enjoin strikers in a national crisis; it was not necessary to spell out his powers...
...bill before the House was almost a carbon copy of the housing bill already passed by the Senate, which had the support of many Republicans-including Robert Taft (TIME, May 2). But in the House, a group of Republicans led by Minority Leader Joe Martin and Indiana's Charlie Halleck fought the bill every inch of the way. It was, Halleck shouted, "another dangerous plunge in ... our headlong rush to overcentralization of control...
...Judgment. Seretse fought hard for throne and love. He had support from many who had grown tired of Regent Tshekedi's high-handed enlightenment (once the regent burned down the huts of tribesmen who defied tribal rulings). On the kgotla's sixth day young Seretse brought the issue to a head. He leaped up with a challenge: "All those stand up who will not accept my wife!" Only 40 rose. Seretse shouted: "Who wants me for chief with my white wife, whom I refuse to give up?" Nearly 6,000 tribesmen responded with a thunderous standing...
...Major studios announced that they were withdrawing support from the Academy...
...builder, Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. If Rancho Grande was in the jungle, the jungle was also in Rancho Grande-nesting in its crevices, pattering and pullulating in its chambers, making every wall "a landscape of mold and slime." With the consent of the Venezuelan government and the support of the New York Zoological Society and the Creole Petroleum Corp., the Beebe expedition moved...