Word: disfavoring
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...assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings, himself a onetime Connecticut politician. Before long, zealous Dr. L&233;vitt was circularizing Connecticut voters with an appeal to form a new party, inviting replies to be addressed to him at the Department of Justice. The Democratic Administration eyed this move with disfavor. Prof. Lévitt resigned to run unsuccessfully for Congress...
...voting on the liberal side in pre-New Deal cases, he wrote the dissenting (liberal) opinion in the New York Minimum Wage Law case, and declined to go so far as the majority in throwing out the Guffey Coal Act lock, stock & barrel. Yet he is definitely in liberal disfavor, not so much because of his anti-New Deal votes in other cases, as for something they sense in his attitude...
...hitting and fielding practice, the baseball team takes its first flight into the atmosphere of the 1937 season. But despite the fact that Harvard tied with Dartmouth for a grip on the league pennant last year, the team starts the new year's venture under a cloud of official disfavor which rained heavily in Mr. Bingham's late report on the state of athletics. For in last year's games the custom of badgering umpires reached such a peak that self-respecting umpires took their lives in their hands in attempting to referee Harvard contests...
Sweeping through the rest of the gallery, Mrs. Logan looked with marked disfavor on another prizewinner, Earthquake by Jon Corbino, showing a sleeping family on the second floor of a collapsing barn above a group of frightened horses...
...wide. Labor disputes are tolerable only so long as they keep on the private battle ground between employer and employee. For the minute the public welfare is put in jeopardy, as occurred in an San Francisco two summers ago, the strike inevitably topples over with the weight of popular disfavor, and both management and labor lose the gains that amicable arbitration would provide...