Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supported Israel, although such support is directly contrary to the interest of the U.S. Israel has nothing to offer this country. Our dealings with her are a one-way street-outgoing. All our economic interest is with the Arab nations who hold over 70% of the free world's known oil reserves, plus the short trade route to the Far East-both of which are vital to our English and European allies...
...Georgian Phil Campbell, 51, was appointed Under Secretary of Agriculture. Campbell, his state's agriculture commissioner since 1955, was one of several Georgia officials who deserted the Democrats for Nixon in the campaign. His appointment is a clear signal to the South that its support for the G.O.P. will not pass unnoticed...
...also resolved, at least for the time being, the fate of Republican National Chairman Ray Bliss. Nixon was widely reported as wanting to dump Bliss for past slights, but Bliss's organizational talents are much admired within the party, and Republican leaders around the land rallied to his support. Looking like a happy old owl, Bliss said in Manhattan that the President-elect "expressed complete satisfaction with the job being done...
Unexpected Support. "Nader's Neophytes" (TIME, Sept. 13), who were given access to the FTC's personnel and records, found the commission riddled with politics and patronage. Employees tend to be unduly compliant with the wishes of individual Congressmen, who are sometimes much less interested in protecting the consumers than in defending the companies back home. The report blamed the agency's shortcomings on its effusive, arm-waving chairman, Paul Rand Dixon, 55, a onetime aide to the late Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. It called for the chairman to "resign from the agency that...
...charges were justified, the report's effectiveness was often diminished by overstatement and an intemperate tone. Suggesting an anti-business bias, the report called the dishonesty of companies "far more damaging to contemporary America than all the depredations of street crime." Though anything but objective, the report drew support last week from an unexpected source. The trade journal Advertising Age joined the Nader team in knocking the commission's foot dragging: "No community is well served," it editorialized, "if its fire department habitually reaches the scene after the last spark has been extinguished...