Word: disfavors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failed to win his old seat. In all, the Minseito won 205 seats and the Seiyukai 174. This meant no more and no less than that, when Japan's militarists reshuffle the Cabinet, a few more portfolios will go to the Minseito, nominally a party which views with disfavor further Japanese conquest in Chinese territory...
...have heard that Harvard is a democratic institution, that it looks with stern disfavor on Fascist ideology. Yet there is little student choice --a Freshman feels that the deities were on his side if he is admitted into a House of his second or third preference, and discovers a small sprinkling of his friends there. The arbitrary limitation of eight friends that may be admitted as a group only increases his sense of frustration and feeling of being a misfit...
...lady and gentleman secretaries from 58 nations followed their French Secretary General into what is to be the $10,000,000 League of Nations Centre. Through gusty, dusty corridors reeking with fresh paint and plaster, the Secretary General & Secretariat threaded their way among Swiss carpenters who eyed them with disfavor...
...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...