Word: disfavorable
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...Special Assistant Earle Bailie had to retire because the Senate would not confirm a Wall Street man. Undersecretary of the Treasury Dean Gooderham Acheson, differing with the President on financial policies, departed without even a perfunctory expression of Presidential regret. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Thomas Hewes fell into disfavor with Secretary Morgenthau, was stripped of most of his duties, took the hint and resigned. Unable to tolerate the New Deal's lavish spending policy any longer, Budget Director Lewis Douglas finally retired. Last week two more names were added to the Treasury's casualty list and Franklin...
...Wichita culture was to be found chiefly in the offices of downtown businessmen. In explaining his reasons for dismissing two of the three professors, President Jardine told the committee that, besides being incompetent, the pair failed to make friends among influential Wichitans. The university regarded the third man with disfavor not because he had been to Russia and lectured on his travels but because he had failed to live down the unfavorable reputation thus gained in Wichita...
Nothing but Federal legislation could put Bergoff out of business. But a combination of growing industrial enlightenment, Governmental disfavor and the New Deal's labor mediation services made it seem probable last week that the lushest profits of the Bergoff system were behind...
Last week Mr. Marshall was somewhat mysterious about financial backing in his purchase of the Braves. The theory that there might be Hearst money involved seemed unsound since young George Hearst is currently in disfavor with his father, who has broadcast notices to Hearst papers in all U. S. cities: DO NOT CASH ANY CHECKS OR GIVE ANY MONEY TO MY SON GEORGE- (signed...
...light years. But Willem de Sitter worked out a universe in which space itself was expanding independently of its matter and Hubble & Humason at Mount Wilson confirmed this expanding universe theory by actual observations. Thus Einstein's universe fell into general disfavor, without at all impairing the General Theory of Relativity. Four years ago Einstein accordingly revised his original universe to conform with these observations...