Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept mouse-still while he listened to the squabble over the merger of the armed services is about ready to speak out. Harry Truman has been in favor of the merger for a long time. Last week he turned down Navy Secretary Forrestal's plea to throw the whole thing to an umpire commission. He also confided to friends that he would ask Congress to pass a merger law which would establish an independent air force and put Army, Navy and Air under one Cabinet member...
Hero of the Pacific War, he was nevertheless a little suspect in Senators' eyes. The reason: a special committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appointed to survey merger opinion among generals and admirals, had reported Nimitz as favoring the idea on Dec. 8, 1944. The committee quoted him as saying: "I favor a single civilian secretary of armed forces, with a complete elimination of civilian secretaries for the Army, for the Navy, and for the Air Forces, with the idea of reducing any tendency to separation." This was eye-to-eye with the way the Army sees today...
...Gain. But last week Nimitz declared: "With the passage of time and with greater war experience ... I no longer favor the single department . . . the theoretical advantages of such a merger are unattainable...
...cable and radio scheme, which involves absorption of the vast, monopolistic system of Cable & Wireless Ltd., should have surprised no one. The Dominions, which favor state-owned systems, had repeatedly urged Britain to adopt such a plan. But the proposal to nationalize civil aviation was new, and it was Labor's own baby...
...member of the "outs," who cannot be named, said last night that "our aim now is to wait until the Navy leaves in February or March. At that time we intend to throw all our weight in favor of a revision of the Student Board constitution, which says that the Student Board shall control student activities...