Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Teeth. The debate had helped clear the air. It had also raised-and apparently answered-a larger question. Was the U.S. prepared, in the age of atomic bombs and jet-propelled planes, to pledge armed support of Europe? The answer, after a few minutes' hesitation, seemed to be yes-even if it had to be qualified to fit the powers of Congress. In a Washington Post poll, 50 Senators declared they would vote to declare war if any country of the North Atlantic pact was attacked; only one of 88 polled indicated he probably would...
...that they would have a pact with teeth in it after all, and with the full knowledge and consent of the Foreign Relations Committee. And in Norway, the ruling Labor Party gave unmistakable evidence that it thoroughly understood the alarums and excursions of parliamentary government by voting overwhelmingly to support Foreign Minister Halvard Lange and his determination to join the North Atlantic alliance...
...reward for his political support, on the recommendation of Secretary of the Treasury, William H. Woodin, he was made Under Secretary of the Treasury. It was one of the shortest jobs he ever held. His legal mind did not approve of President Roosevelt devaluing the dollar, and he spoke out against it. Roosevelt fired him. In a ceremony of Treasury officials at the White House, at which Acheson himself was a stiff-faced participant, Roosevelt handed the Under Secretary's job over to Henry Morgenthau Jr., remarking pointedly that he hoped Morgenthau's loyalty would stand up under...
...made it plain that unless Sun Fo agreed to return to Nanking and support the Acting President's policies, he would oust Sun Fo as Premier. At week's end, Sun Fo had not revealed his decision...
...libel judgment against The Churchman. But in the late '305, his zeal, which was also sharply anti-Rome, began to find new, political channels of expression. The details of the trend were laid down in a 3,000-word document produced last week by Leon Birkhead to support his statement that The Churchman is "involved with the Communist line." The Birkhead document includes "a selected list" of 25 "Communist front or Communist organizations" to which Dr. Shipler lent his name between 1939 and 1949. Nine of them, says Birkhead, are listed by the Attorney General as "Communist...