Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the other end of the line spoke Florida's Claude Pepper. In Taft's mellow old age, he predicted, Taft would remember with more pleasure his support of federal housing, education, medical aid, "than he will recall his Herculean success in putting the retarding fist of his power in the face of the multitudes struggling up the ladder of life to enjoy a few of the satisfactions to which the fortunate were born...
...putting over its bill (reenactment of the Wagner Act with a little stiffening) was knocked galley west when John L. Lewis called his coal strike (see below). Propositions for labor bills were sticking out of virtually every other Senator's pocket. But there was not enough support for any one proposition to put it over...
...more successfully than bald, goateed little Dr. Friedrich Otto Dibelius, a Lutheran. Since the war, as Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg, Dr. Dibelius' alert, twinkling-eyed integrity has proved almost equally galling to the Russian occupation authorities, in whose zone his church is located. To register their tacit support of his undercover battle, the Evangelical Church in Germany in its first official meeting this year elected him chairman (TIME...
...about Bishop Dibelius short of using naked force; he can only be legally deposed by those who elected him-his fellow churchmen. His fellows lost no time last week making their own position clear. At a meeting of all Evangelical priests of Berlin and Brandenburg province, they voted their support of their Bishop to the last syllable. Said an official announcement: "As Dr. Dibelius intends to remain head of the Evangelical Church of Berlin and Brandenburg, he is hardly likely to discharge himself, and today's meeting shows that there is no split and no opposition within his church...
Three varsity hurlers--Ira Godin, Ralph Hymans, and Barry Turner--split the pitching duties. Only Turner got away unscathed, and it took some fine support to save him, Godin and Hymans each gave up four runs, including home runs by Jack Wallace and Bill Barron of the 1947 team. Varsity outfielder Herb Neal retaliated with a three-run homer off Wallace in the sixth, when Stuffy McInnis' men got four of their five tallies...