Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earlier attack Gubbrud sewed together several quotations from McGovern's speeches on civil rights to prove that the senator was in favor of flooding South Dakota with millions of Negroes from the large cities...
...vote to substitute the FAR of six failed on a 4-4 tie with Councillor Barbara Ackermann voting present. Then, only Hayes, Alfred E. Vellucci, and Mayor Walter J. Sullivan voted in favor of the request for a FAR of six. Councillor Thomas W. Danehy voted present, and the other five councillors voted...
...legal advisor in a number of tight spots. Following the 1948 Texas Democratic Primary--which Johnson won by 87 votes when 200 dead Mexicans lined up in alphabetical order a week after the election to cast their ballots for him--Fortas did Johnson what might have been the biggest favor in the President's political life. Johnson's incredulous opponent had sought and obtained a court order to keep Johnson's name off the November ballot pending an investigation of the transparent fraud. Fortas, however, was able to convince Justice Hugo Black to have the order reversed, and Johnson...
...member of the key House Rules Committee under Kennedy, he enhanced his reputation as a moderate by being the only Southerner to side regularly with the administration. But he never declared himself in favor of the most important measure to come before the Committee during his tenure--the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. As administration representatives diplomatically put it, they hoped they wouldn't have to depend on the votes of Thornberry or any of the other "Southern moderates...
...been a long wait for Coach Bill McCurdy and his trackman, for Harvard's Faculty Committee on Athletics made the original decision in favor of the structure last January after months of deliberation...