Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...none of the above should detract too much from Seeger's considerable artistry. He has a poor voice and poorer diction, but neither failing seems to bother him, and if it bothers his listeners they can go elsewhere. He has in his favor a completely ingratiating manner--which natuarally comes across better in person--and tremendous skill with banjo and guitar. This ability is heard to best advantage on dance tunes like Old Dan Tucker and The Blue Tailed...
...gone directly from the Senate to the White House. Explains Kennedy: "The Senate is just not the place to run from. No matter how you vote, somebody is made happy and somebody unhappy. If you vote against enough people, you are dead politically. If you vote for everybody-in favor of every appropriation but against every tax to pay for it-you might as well be dead politically, because you are useless...
...presidential nomination wide open (some say as an invitation to Jack Kennedy), and the great Stop Kefauver movement began. Kennedys gathered in a suite at the Hotel Conrad Hilton, trying to decide whether Jack should go after the nomination. Then word came that the Georgia delegation had caucused in favor of Kennedy. Jack jumped up. "By God," cried he, "if Georgia will vote for me, I must have a chance. I'll go for it." Kennedys scurried all over Chicago, but it was of necessity a disorganized effort; e.g., at about 1:30 a.m., someone said a man, name...
...performed as widely as the other three). Like Graffman, both Istomin, 31, and Fleisher, 29, are the sons of Russian-born parents. Brooklyn-born Eugene Istomin abandoned a boyhood ambition to play for the Dodgers (he served as their water boy during one spring training) in favor of a scholarship at Curtis, where he studied under Pianist Rudolf Serkin. San Francisco-born Leon Fleisher studied under Artur Schnabel in Manhattan, got his biggest professional boost five years ago when he won Belgium's International Concours. Nowadays when the three are in Manhattan together, they reserve Steinway's basement...
...social security). In 1931 he presented his famed "Swope Plan" for stabilizing industry, a scheme for a national organization of modified cartels in which competition would be limited, overproduction governed, workers and investors vigorously protected, and responsibility for unemployment put on the shoulders of industry. Swope retired in favor of Charles E. ("Electric Charlie") Wilson in 1939, and was named chairman of the New York City Housing Authority, but returned to the G.E. controls for the two years (1942-44) that Wilson served as vice chairman of the War Production Board, stepped down again when Wilson returned...