Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your article, however, carried erroneous statement: "The A.M.A. has also turned its back on such individually financed measures as the voluntary health insurance plan offered by the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Commissions" . . . Both the Blue Shield and Blue Cross plans have had and will continue to have the vigorous support of A.M.A...
...week's end, it looked as if the Administration had made a mistake. Until then, Majority Leader Scott Lucas had had the assurance of considerable Republican support. In fact, he had hoped to have enough votes to apply cloture (limitation of debate), break the Southerners' filibuster, write a new rule widening cloture power,-* and, in the end, pass Harry Truman's civil rights program. Then Harry Truman put his foot...
Lottery-happy habaneras, who support five flourishing policy games in addition to the National Lottery, thus had a vested interest in keeping the conductors honest. Guaguas, always jammed to the fenders, grew even more crowded. Marveled one conductor: "Before, we had to chase down some passengers for their fares; now they chase us down for their tickets." A jubilant inspector reported that his job had suddenly become a lead-pipe cinch; "Some people try to pay twice just to get an extra ticket." The company estimated that fare collections would climb some $70,000 a month; the prizes would cost...
Each House will run a separate fundraising drive sometime in the seven weeks before May 1, deadline for signing the assurance papers necessary to guarantee support of the DP's. Eliot House, which began its drive last Tuesday, has already collected a substantial part of its total through door-to-door solicitation...
...E.R.P., to have Dutch interests remain predominant. The means "laissez-faire." The use of the U.N. as suggested by Senator Brewster to coerce the Netherlands into an impossible settlement with the Republican "de facto" government seems to this reader analogous to the U.N.'s condonation of U. S. support to the Greek government, and to the diplomatic support accorded the Jews in Palestine by the U. S. It looks very much to me as if certain consolidated interests are using the good offices of the U.N. to further their own doubtful designs. Again I urge "laissez-faire." John Henselman...