Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...January as "one of those kind-of-usual things") called it "great," volunteered that he was going to back "a very generous appropriation" for foreign aid. Indiana Republican Homer Capehart, who has voted against foreign aid for ten years, called the speech "highly gratifying"-and promised to vote in favor of the President's program. New York Republican Jacob Javits, a staunch budget defender through the battle, reported that his mail was running 10 to 1 in Eisenhower's favor, and "I would call that a dramatic shift in public opinion...
Reynolds called the union announcement "grossly misleading," and wrote to employees that "If they intend to imply my support of the solicitation of your vote in favor of any union, I believe you will feel as I do that it is an example of very poor taste...
Local 254 regards its paid, full-time employees as a decisive factor in its favor, however. "The president of the HUERA is a janitor," notes Sullivan, a recent graduate of the Trade Union Program of the Graduate School of Business Administration. "That's the main difference. We are professionals, working all day, everyday for our members." He adds that officers who are not financially dependent upon the University could bargain more freely...
...Valley Authority's three-man board. Term of Truman-appointed Dr. Harry A. Curtis has expired, leaving board without public-power majority for first time in 24-year TVA history. Top candidates to fill vacancy: Tennessee Republican Congressman Howard Baker, former TVA Engineer Adolph Ackerman, both of whom favor President Eisenhower's "partnership-power...
...Lower Saxony has done little to build up Volkswagen, and the federal government expects to knock out this claim with its private ownership bill. The Bundestag is likely to pass the bill this fall, unless Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is upset in September's elections by the Socialists, who favor continued nationalization. But German politicians believe that the very announcement of the stock ownership plan will pick up votes for the Adenauer-Erhard team, help put it back in office to see the plan carried...