Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago Black's ex-law partner, Crampton Harris, had come before the Supreme Court representing the miners in the famed "portal-to-portal" case. Jackson thought Black should disqualify himself. Instead, Black voted with the majority in favor of the union. Despite the fact Black's vote did not alter the decision, Jackson sharply rapped Black...
Wallace's boldest competitor is David (Esquire) Smart's smart and colorful Coronet. By dropping its cuts of Etruscan vases in favor of homey pictures of kids & pets, it had shot up (said Smart) to 4,000,000 from a puny prewar 120,000. Recently Coronet got into a "saturation race" with the Digest. Both had been selling out regularly. Now armed with more paper, they dumped thousands of extra copies on the market to see what it could stand. Returns jumped heavily, but both hit their biggest circulations in history for that time of year...
President Eduard Benes' National Socialists (who favor, beyond Mickey Mouse, limited nationalization and limited Western orientation) have 54 seats. The People's Party (for capitalism and a strong Western-minded foreign policy) have 48. While Bohemia and Moravia turned left, Catholic Slovakia swung sharply to the right: the province managed to elect 48 Conservative assemblymen...
Sometimes his fellow travelers were embarrassed by the questions people asked Ehrenburg: Was he a Red or White Russian? Did he favor buttons or zippers for his trousers? Why are Russians so dirty? Ehrenburg was surprised by schoolchildren who could name no Russian cities...
...Sister and Lifebuoy's Bob Burns program) are to be axed. Before he's done, Luckman plans to slice $5 million from the budget for radio, pay it out for newspaper and magazine advertising. The budget, now weighted 70% to 30% in radio's favor, will be balanced, 50-50. Where Lever leads, others often follow...