Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time for the Undertaker. It was at this juncture that the Republicans took over. Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry, nicknamed by newsmen "The Merry Mortician," had been getting support for a "compromise," which was not a compromise at all but a hard peace imposed by the victors. He had rounded up 18 Southerners, 22 Republicans and twelve "non-confederate" Democrats, mostly from the border states. Thus reinforced, with full control of the Senate, Wherry went on the floor, whooped through his "compromise" resolution to end the filibuster by a 6340-23 vote...
...powerful support rendered the Soviet Union by the democratic forces [i.e., Communist fifth columns] in all countries...
Reserved Rights. Every time the U.S. protested against treaty violations, said the State Department, the satellites pointed out that protests must be made "in concert" with the West's Russian allies. The Russians flatly refused to act in concert-or to act at all except in support of the local Reds. Huffed the State Department: "The U.S. Government reserves all its rights under the treaties...
...capital has to be replaced out of "a fund of public savings." When new machines or other capital goods are needed in the U.S., they are normally paid for by the investment of the savings of those private individuals who have more than they require to support life. In general, these individuals make up "the middle class...
Schlesinger said the rally was backed by many "left wingers like myself who cannot accept a pro-Soviet policy. Those who do not recognize the Soviet threat to intellectual freedom and who support the conference are false to human decency...