Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crangle wields the same kind of power over Erie County (including Buffalo). Although they have not officially supported Kennedy, they do not hide their feelings. A strong county chairman has unmatched influence because he--not a United States Senator or Governor--directly controls the lower-level patronage and favor-dispensation which remain the crux of American politics even when the nation...
...Pool itself is likely to be revamped as one result of last week's emergency. The Europeans arriving in Washington-Britain's O'Brien, Hubert Ansiaux of Belgium, Karl Blessing of Germany, Guido Carli of Italy, Jelle Zijlstra of The Netherlands, and Edwin Stopper of Switzerland-favored the view that the time has come to try the "two-tier" system of gold prices that many an economist has been urging. Under the two-tier idea, the U.S. and its economic allies would continue central-bank exchanges of gold and dollars at the $35-an-ounce price...
...Little Loyalty. Joseph William Martin Jr. was born in North Attleboro, Mass., in an era of horse trolleys and self-made men. Son of a Scots blacksmith and an Irish lass, he peddled papers, passed up Dartmouth in favor of reporting local news, and later bought the paper. Politics came naturally in that era, and Joe Martin was a natural. Stubby and combative, as quick with an infectious grin as with a roundhouse right, little Joe's big break came in 1925, when he entered the U.S. House of Representatives after the man who had beaten...
...book peopled by the kind of quarrelsome critics and lecturers who read Partisan Review for laughs. All things considered, it was not a very promising subject for a movie, but Director Sidney Lumet took a crack at it anyway-jettisoning most of Markfield's literary humor in favor of Jewish situation comedy. The result, called Bye Bye Braverman, has a lot to talk about, and nothing much...
...hope in a political process that seemed--and may well be--incapable of coping with the nation's crises. Yet there can be little doubt that of the two men, Kennedy has a far better chance of capturing the Democratic nomination. We urge Gene McCarthy to step aside in favor of Kennedy, who offers the best hope of winning the Presidency and extricating America from Vietnam...