Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunburned nose when he made his appearance before the committee. He itched, twitched, rubbed and rambled on garrulously about the propriety of secondary boycotts and Teamster growth during his administration. But there was no rambling when .Chairman McClellan sighted across the committee table and asked: "Are you in favor of union officers being honest in the administration of union funds...
...explain away the fact that most of them were elected on a support-Eisenhower platform, the Old Guardsmen make a final point in their case: somehow or other, since 1956 Ike has "changed" because "they" (i.e., the "men around Eisenhower") persuaded the President to forsake his solid Republicanism in favor of a leftward course featuring such "giveaways" as school construction, health reinsurance and expanded foreign...
...Unknown Man. On closer examination it was seen that the crafty Nikita had struck out 25 key industrial ministries in favor of control at regional levels, where his party hacks are strongest. Among those presumably to be abolished was the ministry of Khrushchev's predecessor and rival, the Ministry of Electric Power Stations, run by Georgy Malenkov, who set up and top-managed the Soviet industrial might in World War II and presumably speaks for the technocrat class...
...Religious education. Gomulka's granting as much as he did was a concession he is hard put to defend before his fellow Communists, who see Poland's youth slipping away from them into the Catholic orbit. But Wyszynski is known to be in favor of reintroducing the parochial schools, and there is some laymen's pressure to make religious education compulsory for all-a demand that Gomulka cannot possibly grant and Wyszynski will not make...
Sophomore standing will give the history department a "predisposition" toward granting advanced standing May says. The department will also look with special favor on advanced standing sophomores who plan to stretch their program out to four years. For those students presenting advanced placement credit in history the department would be "inclined" to regard course reduction plans favorably. Advanced Placement, however, according to May, will not give the student any measurable advantage over one whose work within the department has been of high quality...