Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then, Texas and its university have been hearing quite a bit from Communist Addington. As youth director for the state party, he began to appear before committees of the legislature to protest against segregation or to support anti-lynching bills. To Texans, his favorite tactic seemed to be tactlessness. Once, when a member of the legislature asked him what he was studying at the state university, he snarled, "That is none of your concern." The angrier the legislators got, the more Addington seemed to like...
...face of the U.S. surplus, the U.S. share of exports under the pact (168 million bu.) was comparatively small, though the cost to the U.S. might prove large. As long as wheat support prices are higher than the pact price, the Federal Government would have to pay the difference. In effect, it would subsidize the exports. Furthermore, importing nations would be required to take their maximum quotas under the agreement only when the price fell to the minimum. As long as the price was above that, they could buy from Russia or Argentina, if those nations wanted to undersell...
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...British wartime leader asked for the orcation of a world instrument capable at least of giving to all its members Security against Aggression," but falled to make specific proposals toward this end. However, he mentioned the "brave and ardent support" felt on the Continent for the cause of a United Europe, and praised the United States as an example of "new-won supremacy that has not been used for self-aggrandizement but only for further sacrifice...
After mulling over this prospect for two days, the bitter rivals got together. Emerging from the Palacio like a couple of spanked schoolboys, Jefes Carlos Lleras Restrepo of the Liberals and Guillermo León Valencia of the Conservatives pledged support to the government's peace program. As a starter, they sent bipartisan posses out to convince troublemakers that the killing off of each other's voters was no way to win an election...