Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nationalist outfit, supported the "Committee for Operational Unity," which had cooled the ghetto the week before. The time was not right for revolution, argued Maulana (meaning teacher) Ron, urging that "differences between bloods" be forgotten. Harlem's Charles Kenyatta, a chieftain of the American Mau Mau, preached in favor of racial peace and praised Mayor John Lindsay's casual walking tours among ghetto dwellers: "They want to feel that someone is concerned, and he goes out and reads people's faces...
...both sides. Ohio's William McCulloch, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, abruptly broke with Ford to come out in support of the bill, followed by Illinois' John Anderson and more than a dozen other Republicans. Knowing that enough G.O.P. votes had probably swung over in favor of open housing, Johnson canceled his announced civil rights address to Congress. Principal reason for the decision: he did not wish to risk antagonizing the Republican converts by seeming to claim partisan proprietorship of the bill...
...already, McCarthy may well control enough delegates after the convention's first ballot to tip the balance in a close race between Kennedy and Humphrey. Which way might he go? McCarthy isn't saying, but the suspicion, shared by Kennedy's strategists, is that he would favor his fellow Minnesotan, Hubert Humphrey...
SACHS made an impassioned speech in favor of his resolution, and later echoed even more passionately his earlier charges of "conspiracy." He protested the "ungentlemanly" hissing from the audience, and to emphasize his disapproval, stormed out of the meeting. Fairbank commented, "it seems that Milton got a bit wrought...
McCarthy himself often irritated the newsmen by junking speeches prepared by Richard Goodwin in favor of his own at the last minute. Reporters who had early deadlines and thus field their stories from the advance text boiled at this habit...