Word: disfavorable
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...package of letters from the King of Prussia and George Arliss in unbecoming knee breeches. Count de Sarnac (Alan Mowbray) is the greedy Minister of Finance to Louis XV (Reginald Owen). Because Voltaire (George Arliss) writes tracts denouncing his heavy taxes, the Count tries to bring him into disfavor with the King- unsuccessfully because the King enjoys Voltaire's conversation and Mme Pompadour (Doris Kenyon) finds him entertaining...
...Lloyd's grizzled chief, famed Philipp Heineken, and elected Nazi Helfferich to serve also as their board chairman. No plans whatever for the re-organization of Germany's two greatest shipping lines were announced. Last spring Chancellor Hitler gave correspondents to understand that he viewed with disfavor their close working agreement, thought they ought to compete more vigorously. Last week Double Chairman Helfferich, in whose person Hamburg-American and N. G. L. seemed definitely united, went blithely off for a country holiday, left officials of the two lines to carry on with only this vague injunction...
...francs and sent the budget back to the Senators again. Premier Daladier's is the job of forcing some sort of a compromise, and bringing the budget to final vote without losing his government, a business which Deputies, Senators and Cabinet all view with marked disfavor. Canny Socialist Deputies found a way of postponing the fateful day by attaching a rider to the budget giving the Government a monopoly on the importation and distribution of oil in France. Discussion of this, devising the machinery for taking over British and U. S. oil depots, may postpone the budget a month...
...prodigious ideas because he believed the public might not comprehend certain moves, or whether he did so because he was doubtful of their success is of little importance. It is the secrecy which has been involved in the workings of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that has caused disfavor. When Mr. Roosevelt and his colleagues cuter the White House, they will have an opportunity to be as secretive as the out going administration. Mr. Roosevelt can appoint a commission to continue the investigation of the dishonesty in New York City politics. But eddy though the people do not expect...
...Senator Borah. There were two others. They were Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor of New York, and his wife Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. He was T. R.'s fifth cousin, she, his favorite niece. Yet President Roosevelt's immediate brood looked upon these two kinsmen with political distrust and personal disfavor because they were Democrats. Once during the 1920 campaign young Theodore Roosevelt, to dispel the popular impression that Franklin Roosevelt was a real chip off the Big Stick, declared: "He's a maverick! He doesn't have the brand of our family...