Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brussels Treaty (TIME, March 15 et seq.) and picked Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery to mastermind their joint defenses. "The combined resources of the Brussels Pact nations cannot at this time provide enough military strength to assure effective resistance to aggression," the State Department said. "Because of its preponderant strength, support by the United States is essential...
...Europe's recovery. Among the Marshall Plan nations of Europe, there was still fear of Russian aggression, fear which might "destroy the psychological basis upon which recovery depends." The North Atlantic Alliance would be an "antidote to fear." Just how far would it commit the U.S. to military support of Western Europe? The State Department was not yet ready...
Portland's reform mayor, trim, grey Mrs. Dorothy ("I will enforce the law") Lee, was getting unexpected support last week in her drive to clean up Portland. It came from no less a person than Mike Elliott, the beefy, tousle-headed new sheriff of Multnomah County, which surrounds Portland...
Charles Wolf, the other speaker at the meeting, declared that the United States should back all liberal, moderate governments in southeast Asia with more than just lip service. It should do so by giving such governments active support in the UN, by exchanging students, and by sending economic aid, Economic aid should not come on a Marshall Plan basis, however, Wolf was quick to point out, but should be sent through private investments. By doing so the United States could bring about what Wolf called multilateral world trade. This term means that once Indonesia received help...
...under the will of Anna Clapp Frothingham in memory of her husband, a member of the Class of 1886. The will instructs F. S. Von Stade, Jr. '38's Committee on Scholarships to award the funds to "seniors who best exemplify the qualities of excellent scholarship, manliness, and effective support of the best interests of Harvard University...