Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard times are an old story to the Gardens. The first World War took experienced help away and cut public support; deterioration reached such a point that the curator resigned in despair. Only revived interest and generous benefactors saved them--the thirties found the Gardens beautiful once more, and the visitors still came...
...remainder of the candidates staged a slogan war. Bill Bush pleaded, "Throw away that truss. Give your support to Bush." Briodo claimed he was "wanted by the Biddies," and Aldrich and Lauterstein hinted...
...team." The act was a compromise affair, reflecting the Navy's old fear of having the other services gang up against it, and the Air Force's equally strong desire to get out from under Army control. The Army wanted to make sure it would get sufficient direct air support, and the Navy plugged for carrier task-forces as our main striking weapon. After the long fight, the office of the Secretary of Defense was finally created to supervise three specialized secretaries for Air, Navy and Army. The basic conflicts on wartime functions made the services wary of putting...
...Emery Shipler-perhaps in the belief that he has found the only alternative or antithesis to the Vatican-has gone over to the side of the fronters ... He could not be more helpful to the Kremlin policy if he were a member of the party ... By his gesture of support to countless Communist organizations and his championing of a line consistent only in that it protects Stalin's foreign policy, Guy Emery Shipler and his magazine are very helpful agencies by which the Communist Party does its work in America...
...them in U.S. colleges. A few have come on scholarships; some have been sent by their government, but most have come on their own. They are in the U.S. to study everything from church music and airline management to philology and nuclear physics. They include many who support the Nationalist government, some who have ranged from undergraduate criticism of their government to outright pro-Communist opposition. Most of them, whatever their politics, were in trouble last week...