Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft was also battling a rising tide in Lilienthal's favor. All last week a flood of witnesses appeared before the Senate's Atomic Energy Committee to testify to Lilienthal's experience, ability and ideology. Scientists,' religious groups, plain citizens rallied to the Lilienthal cause. A Washington Post poll found 68% of the nation's Republican press pro-Lilienthal, only 14% anti. Atomic Trail-Blazer Albert Einstein urged confirmation. M.I.T.'s Dr. Karl Compton warned that many atomic scientists might take Lilienthal's defeat as the cue to pull out of the vast...
Speaking before the fourth meeting of the Harvard Republican Open Forum on Wednesday evening in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, Alfred D. Simpson, assistant professor of Education, came out in favor of increased federal aid to education, although recognizing, the danger implicit in federal supervision...
...remote from natural life; Mrs. Chicoy is a type of frank, stupid and violent sensuality; Mrs. Pritchard is The Nice Woman, that baneful figure, whose frigidity is the source and symbol of her other deathly qualities; Mildred, her sulky offspring, apparently represents the healthy rebellion of youth in favor of life; and the. party girl, Camille Oaks, stands for commercialized...
Justice Frank Murphy, an eager beagle who is all heart-and-snuffles whenever the legal hunt picks up the scent of something human, sniffed out a resemblance to portal-pay cases previously decided in favor of miners. As spokesman for a 5-2 majority he sent the case back to the lower court. Picard was ordered to decide whether workers' time between punching the time clock and starting work was a trifle (which could be ignored) or substantial (which must be paid for). And, in Justice Murphy's phrase, he was to do so "in light...
...Senate to confirm him in his new office might well give the military another energy developments in this country. Although they lost when the McMahon Bill was passed last summer, although public opinion polls of the past year have demonstrated a steadily increasing majority of the American people in favor of civilian control, the military and their congressional supporters have not given up hope. And when it is considered that most of the opposition to Lilieuthal's confirmation stems from those Senators who fought the McMahon Bill openly and by amendment last year it is not surprising that many onlookers...