Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign Relations. Continuation of the bipartisan policy; renewal of reciprocal-trade treaties; further liberalization of the Displaced Persons Act to admit 200,000 more D.P.s; full support of a free Israel...
...Economy. Stand-by power to clamp on price controls, allocation and rationing of scarce materials; stronger rent controls; strong federal support of farm prices; ratification of an agreement which would guarantee U.S. farmers an export market of 185 million bushels of wheat a year for the next five years; government construction of more grain bins; crop insurance: a broad program of soil conservation, rural electrification, reclamation; development of more TVAs...
Kelland & Co. had some support from the lower echelons. Some 500 Southern California Republicans, meeting at Alhambra, Calif, last week, attacked Warren's "nonpartisanship," and called for the elimination of the state's cross-filing system "so we will be sure candidates who run for public office on the Republican ticket shall subscribe to the principles of real Republicanism." Some other Old Guardsmen kept their sense of humor. Said one: "These boys have wrecked the party in three different national elections. Now it's only fair to give us a chance to wreck...
Secretary Brannan had urgent politico-economic reasons for wanting CCC to ship the grain. With the biggest crop in history piling up, much of it was without storage and therefore ineligible for Government loans, a form of price support. If private traders took over EGA buying, they would be likely to buy stored grain, pass over the other grain. On the other hand, CCC may be able to buy the unstored grain and ship it out before farmers have to sell it below support levels...
...radio commentator Robert S. Allen declared in a mid-summer broadcast that the British Intelligence Service had murdered Polk because the latter was about to receive a Communist offer to make peace with the Government, and the report of such an offer would mean an end to American support of Britain's position in Greece...