Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these points concerns the alleged "support," allegedly supplied off and on, to Fisher in his NSA and Student Council activities. Both NSA and the Student Council are, of course, non-political organizations, and the YRC has been careful not to have any official say in Fisher's business. All that happened was this: three personal friends of Fisher's, all members of the nine-man YRC Planning Committee, give him advice, or reprimanded him, as the case demanded--strictly in their capacity as personal friends. It would not be fair, on this point, to accuse Fisher of a deficiency...
...them, sponsored by the Housing and Home Finance Agency, recommends little more than the abandoned T-E-W Bill. The other, written by a well known group of housing experts with the support of virtually every type of politically active organization, makes more progressive proposals. The basic similarity in both measures, however, indicates that the question is no longer whether or not there will be public housing as in the last session, but rather what form the program will take...
...doubt that the Real Estate lobby stopped the Bill, it is difficult to understand the opposition. Considering the gravity of the present housing crisis (estimates of the need run as high as 1.5 million units per year until 1960), it was a mild proposal which had almost complete support throughout the country. It called for Federal subsidies to local or state governments for 500,000 units of public housing per year for the next four years. Only those with incomes less than $2100 a year would be eligible, a group which speculative builders cannot pretend to cater to, for rents...
After reading your Nov. 15 article entitled "Fair Trade," I think that, in all fairness to those of us who support fair trade and the Miller- Tydings Act, you should print the following...
...Most manufacturers of brand products support fair trade and the Miller-Tydings...