Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shrewd, courtly Harry Byrd became governor in 1926. He promptly sponsored a forthright antilynching law (Virginia retains today a poll tax that works not so much against Negroes as against non-Byrd-organized outlanders. who often forget to ante up in time). Byrd also spurned easy, inflationary financing in favor of a pay-as-you-go road plan (tourists in Virginia, who bring in $600 million a year, still drive comfortably along Byrd-planned highways). After Harry Byrd went to the U.S. Senate in 1933, his followers continued to give Virginia good government...
...first. Winchell pledged, will come a crusade to "expose" the ratings that he used to quote endlessly when they were in his favor during his successful years as a radio tattler. Said he: "I have written to Senators and Representatives to call attention to the rating system, which devastates and puts performers out of work...
...chlings still held title to the giant steel works, although France claimed its machinery as reparations, and put in French managers. While France pressured the Röchlings to sell out to French firms, the Röchlings stalled because they knew the political climate was changing in their favor. When the Saarlanders voted in a pro-German government last year, France capitulated, and this year agreed to sell the Röchling steel holdings back to the Röchlings. The price: $8.5 million in war indemnification, about one-sixth of the plant's worth...
...takes an Egyptian child bride as a favor to Napoleon, who dreams of founding a new dynasty and a new race in the Middle East. But the French are halted at Acre, plague decimates their ranks, the fellahin reject Enlightenment for the savage joys of Holy War against the Christian dogs. Napoleon is defeated by fate, and Rémi by Corinne. Author McKenney, who has spent nearly four years in writing Mirage, tells her complicated story in an elliptic, literary shorthand that conveys much information quickly but will be the despair of some readers. Nearly every page is scattered...
...discussion of the issue of proposing legislation indicated a sympathy with the group and its objectives. He called for "a searching, creative opposition," saying he had "always been in favor of the Democratic Party's having a legislative program of its own, especially when it's a majority party...