Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returned." A Courbevoie worker wrote: "This is our last hope." Recently Garry Davis filled the Salle Pleyel and the Velodrome d'Hiver, two big auditoriums in Paris, with cheering thousands-crowds such as only Charles de Gaulle, and possibly Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, could attract. His committee of support includes Albert Einstein, who cabled that "only the unbendable will of the people can free the forces which are necessary for such a radical break with the old and outlived tradition in politics"; the U.S. ex-Communist writer Richard Wright (Native Son) is another Davisite. Says Wright: "Can the peoples...
...comparable to the worst Russia could do, he answered: "Of course not." When I asked why this was not said publicly, one of his advisers quickly said it was "a matter of expediency." That is, if Davis publicly criticized Russia more than the U.S. he would lose the support of those French leftists who, however genuine their intellectual eminence, are all abysmally ignorant...
Both Hansen and Harris backed Truman's request for support of farm prices to avert an agricultural depression as supply catches up with demand...
...Salaries. Unable to agree on drafting players, the two leagues were knocking each other out in bidding for college football stars. The average salary had been bid up from $4,000 to $8,000 for a four-month playing season. There were just not enough pro football fans to support three Chicago teams or three New York teams. (New York was about to get a fourth-the National League's Boston Yanks, moving to the big city because attendance in Boston fell as low as 6,800.) And the two leagues had steadfastly failed to get together even...
...Agriculture estimated that the winter wheat crop would be a near-record 964,808,000 bushels. That could mean a whopping surplus piled on top of this year's surplus. Although the Department had urged an 8% cut in winter wheat acreage, farmers (spurred by the price support law) had increased their acreage by 5%. It would cost taxpayers millions in support payments...