Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Convention's keynote speech this week, Washington's Governor Arthur B. Langlie confided to a friend that he had watched the pyrotechnics of Democratic Keynoter Frank Clement, found them distasteful. Said Langlie: "I'll be passing up the Chicago brand of prejudicial fire and brimstone in favor of what I've tried to make a higher tone." To his wife Evelyn he fretted: "I want to be sure that nobody can say this speech has any unjustified name-calling...
...kept his head when the thunder began to rumble at Chicago. Under his steadying hand, Platform Committee Southerners sat silent, although glum, through a parade of outspokenly civil-righteous witnesses, e.g., A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who demanded that "the Democratic Party must declare that it is not in favor of thwarting a decision of the Supreme Court...
...Politburo met with Comrade Gomulka" to consult him on "fundamental problems." The Politburo's purpose seemed clear. Gomulka's nationalism had won him the admiration of many Poles, including some antiCommunists, and by re-garbing him in the raiment of Marxist grace, the party hoped to win favor with people who say that if they must be governed by Communists, better a Communist who sometimes remembers he is also a Pole...
Because of its size and power, the service has inevitably stirred up controversy. For one thing, some educators deplored the passing of the old essay question ("Discuss the consequences of the Dred Scott decision") in favor of the objective type ("The chief justice in the Dred Scott Case was: 1. John C. Calhoun. 2. Roger B. Taney. 3. William Lloyd Garrison, 4. Salmon P. Chase, 5. Stephen A. Douglas"). The new tests, said the critics, might be able to determine a student's superficial knowledge of a subject, but they gave no indication of whether he could think...
...Gilbert decided to step up to a Gallup, canvassing the blue-jeans set for its views on politics, manners, smoking, necking, military service, family quarrels, juvenile delinquency. In his newspaper debut, Gilbert reported on a political survey: "If today's teen-agers could vote next November, they would favor Eisenhower over Stevenson by more than 2 to 1." Forthcoming findings...