Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Calcutta, where thrifty Bengalis ran wild in 1953 over a ⅓cent rise in streetcar fares, mobs rioted around the post offices when it was discovered that the price of stamps would be rounded off in favor of the government. In industrial Kanpur, bus service was tied up for hours when bus drivers discovered they could not drive and argue about fares at the same time. Mothers fretted that the new coins were too easy for kids to swallow. Even the beggars complained formally that the changeover would cost them profits since passers-by now tossed them a mere naya...
...should a top university," queried the editorial, "place in such high esteem and favor a man regarded by many as an unloyal America." Oppenheimer was barred from access to classified government information by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1954, due to "conduct not in the interests of national security...
With the election of crooked, dapper Mayor Jimmy Walker in 1926, Jimmy Hines's big days were at hand. In his unostentatious apartment on West 111th Street, Walker Man Hines received long lines of favor seekers and job hunters. Dispensing money, making "contracts," Jimmy ran his quickly growing empire with smiling aplomb and efficient service. Smarting under Al Smith's attempt to run Tammany, Hines backed Franklin Roosevelt for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932, won a fat reward that left Tammany with tongue drooping; F.D.R. handed him the job of dispensing all federal patronage in Manhattan...
...German Affairs made a detailed poll of refugee political convictions. Of the workers polled (all of whom had been employed in Communist state-run industries), 22% were still outspoken in support of Communist policy; 25% criticized some aspects of the Communist Party line and defended others; 17% were in favor of state ownership of all means of production; 25% supported "moderate" nationalization. And only 8% were for free enterprise pure and simple...
...theories. His Chess Players is a conventional impressionist study of his two bearded brothers (Raymond, left; Jacques, right) with their wives in Puteaux. In 1923, after a few zestful years as a leader of the Dadaists (see below), he decided to give up painting for good in favor of chess...