Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said little A.P. Member Kerney, on his editorial page: "The supporters of [the Chicago Tribune's publisher] McCormick now are preparing petitions to Congress to exempt news agencies from the antitrust laws. This is an unfortunate attempt to gain special favor. . . . Congress should turn [it] down. Freedom of the press . . . is not a license to newspapers to run their businesses apart from the rest of America. . . . It should be treated by the press . . . as the sacred trust which...
...following days there was little improvement. As stocks drifted in the holiday doldrums, Wall Streeters wondered if Winchell had not done the Street a favor. He had shaken out many an amateur plunger who had no business playing the market anyway. Such a shaking down, they felt, was what the market needed after its long rise. Most Wall Streeters felt that the bull market still has a long way to go. One seasoned wag quipped: "What I want to know is-what does Charlie McCarthy think...
...point in his favor: Willow Run's vast space is an ideal place in which to make cars and tractors, if the assembly lines can be made to tick smoothly. Plump, dapper Joe Frazer, optimistic as usual predicted that the Frazer would start coming off the lines in March, the Kaiser, with a front-wheel drive, by the middle of April. By July 1, he expects Willow Run to be in peak production of 1,500 cars...
Elected December 2 to replace Morris Fishbein, he came out five days later in PM, the New York daily, not only in favor of socialized medicine, but also for universal medical care through government agencies...
...hired hands and contributors find him and his favor unpredictable. Once Wallace gave an elderly employee the silent treatment for months-and then, in a sudden change of mood, gave him a twelve-room house for Christmas...