Word: favor
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...when Cannon died last year, the House Appropriations chairmanship went to Texas' George Mahon, a middle-of-the-road Democrat, who set about taming the Tartar. Though he let Passman stay on as chairman of the subcommittee, he pared it from eleven to nine members, most of whom favor foreign aid. Passman found himself powerless. Where, in his heyday, subcommittee hearings had dragged on for months, this year's sessions were rushed through in eleven weeks by the new membership. Under Mahon's orders, Chairman Passman was not even allowed to issue a report. Objected Otto...
Smiting the Wicked. The flock had its tribulations. In 1941 an apostate sheep sued Father Divine to recover a $3,937 contribution, and a New York court found in her favor. In a moment of godly wrath, he threatened to "evaporate for 1,900 years" but instead moved to Philadelphia. He never forgave New York. Later, in the midst of a dry spell in 1950, he prophesied: "I will dry up your rivers and I will dry up your streams. This water shortage in New York City has been just a slight sketch and reflection of what I will...
...Shastri. After a private meeting in Karachi, Ayub said that Shastri was willing to compromise on Kashmir but felt he was not strong enough to convince his own government. Ayub added, "I told him that, as Prime Minister of India, it was his duty to build public opinion in favor of a satisfactory solution. He might be criticized by some elements, but the bulk of the Indian people would thank him for relieving them of a great anxiety." Ayub concluded that it was impossible to reach an agreement with the ambivalent and indirect Shastri. They settled into a tenuous coexistence...
Precarious Stability. The British public has had just about enough: a National Opinion Poll showed last week that four out of five Britons would go so far as to favor tough government legislation outlawing unauthorized strikes. Harold Wilson, for all his dependence on the workingman's vote, has had enough too. Knowing that Labor's work stoppages, coupled with wage gains running an inflationary 6.3% so far this year, threaten not only the precarious stability of sterling but also the precarious two-vote majority by which his socialists rule. Wilson demanded that the Trades Union Congress, meeting...
Last week Paul issued an encyclical firmly in favor of transubstantiation. He did not deny the right of the holders of "singular opinions" to investigate, but it was his duty to warn against "the grave danger that these opinions involve for correct faith...