Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most significant thing about my victory is that it demonstrates to the people of the world that Georgia does not look with favor on civil rights and proves that Georgia is not a testing ground for Communistic ideologies...
...Examine the Assumptions." "Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought. He resigned from Columbia in 1917 over the dismissal of two non-interventionist colleagues, though he himself was in favor of U.S. entry into World War I. The New York Times congratulated the university on its "deliverance" from such a radical. He was forever popping up-at congressional hearings, protest meetings, or with a new book-to attack Hearst, or Wall Street, the "intellectual bankruptcy of conservatism," or the internationalists and their "giddy minds." No one ever quite knew what...
...Queen proudly: "Een Oranje dringt zijn diensten nimmer op" (An Orange never forces his services on anyone). One of her young advisers said recently: "She hoped too much. She has been disappointed too much." This week, at 68, after half a century of rule, she leaves the throne in favor of her sturdy daughter, 39-year-old Juliana. Schoolchildren were singing a new song in Wilhelmina's honor...
...give my consent to anything"), progressive, income taxes ("nothing but socialism"), public education ("a house of prostitution is voluntary, grade school is not") and aid to Europe ("Let 'em go to hell"). He considers both Herbert Hoover and Earl Warren too leftwing. Two things Publisher Hoiles is in favor of: child labor for the average, child ("Give him a pick & shovel and let him get started") and the black market. One touch of liberalism in the Hoiles record: during the war, he campaigned to give U.S. Japanese a fair break...
More important than all these considerations, Truman had done Boston's ex-convict Mayor James M. Curley a favor. Curley had been nursing a grudge ever since Truman let him spend five months in jail before commuting his sentence. Dever was Curley's man. With Tobin out of the race, Dever was assured of nomination, and Jim Curley, thanks to Harry Truman, was given a free hand in Massachusetts Democratic politics...