Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moreover, the recruiting curve was on the way up: 61,750 volunteers in September, instead of an estimated 30,000.* True many of the volunteers might have been scared into the Army to beat the draft, but now another factor was working in the recruiting officers' favor: the 52-20 clubs were breaking up. Many veterans who had drawn $20 for 52 weeks were re-enlisting instead of seeking civilian jobs...
...Hinky Dink kept sober (his wife was a temperance worker), honored his word, and ruled with an iron hand. He made and unmade mayors and chiefs of police. Year after year he used his power brazenly, openly, ruthlessly to squeeze bribes from all who sought municipal favor...
...cried Yugoslavia's Krasovec, with a strident isolationism reminiscent of U.S. Midwest Senators in 1915. Russia's Nikolai Feonov generalized the anti-trade point into a principle in his criticism of an ECOSOC report calling for the economic coordination of Europe. He found that it "tends to favor the still greater development of highly developed countries." He presaged Molotov's warning that free trade destroyed the independence of weaker countries, adding: "I, for instance, believe that bilateral agreements are for the time being the best...
...majority party in Peru. Haya himself, now an outspoken foe of Communism, was all steamed up about paying back defaulted Peruvian bonds to the U.S. (so that he could get new funds for his industrial, irrigation and Indian-aid projects). With the U.S. State Department he stood in high favor. And in capitals like Santiago and Caracas, government was now in the hands of leftists, some of whom (Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt, for one) had known Haya in exile...
Tabulations in the Council office last night showed that the average weighting of House votes in favor of their own members was especially pronounced in the out-of-town group...