Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audibly grumbling Deputies had their own ill-tempered answer for Bourgès' attitude: they voted 240 to 194 to make him Premier, installing him with fewer votes than Socialist Guy Mollet had in his favor in losing...
...Randall view. There are also followers of this line of reasoning within the State Department itself; e.g., Under Secretary of State Christian Herter and Deputy Under Secretary Douglas Dillon accept it, at least in theory. CIA Director Allen Dulles, brother of the Secretary of State, is also in favor. Among Allen Dulles' reasons: even a trickle of U.S.-Red China trade would give his agents great intelligence opportunities in Peking...
...were 88 G.I.s serving prison terms in foreign jails-including 38 for robbery, larceny and related offenses, 18 for aggravated assault and related offenses, eight for murder and manslaughter. And in jail as well as in the courthouse, allied officials make a practice of going to extraordinary lengths to favor the U.S. In Japan's Yokosuka prison, for example, 36 Americans are serving Japanese sentences of from three to 15 years for robbery, rape, manslaughter or murder. They get special food, vocational training, athletic equipment, a 900-volume library, armed-forces network radio, etc.; even the two murderers stand...
...gimmick, forced New York's Emanuel Celler and other advocates into an uncomfortable posture of constant defense. Between speeches they clapped friendly arms around Republican shoulders, added private pleas to public petitions in behalf of the amendment. When the Southerners hinted that they could sniff 240 votes in favor of their amendment, Administration forces were flabbergasted and alarmed...
...same time has made it clear that he thinks the U.S. should relinquish some of its control over Okinawa's civil administration. He has stoutly opposed both the U.S. and Russian refusal to halt H-bomb tests, but he has gone publicly and vigorously on record in favor of a common front against both Russian and Chinese Communism...