Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are many things a statesmanlike Congress might have done in this period. A speedy application of European relief not only would serve one of the greatest humanitarian needs of all time, but would, by concrete evidence, give Europeans something to thing about in favor of American and her system of government. Tiredly shelving a bill to help solve the DP problem by letting some immigrants into the country, Congress has instead pushed to absured measures the attempt to "roundup" communists, whose influence of course is nil in a country as rich as the U.S. today...
Even better news for Democratic regulars was the condition of party fortunes as a whole. From a post-election slump (down to 47% last Christmas), the Democrats had bounced back into favor with 55% of U.S. voters, exactly the same percentage with which Roosevelt beat Wendell Willkie in 1940, 1.2 points more than the margin by which Roosevelt beat Tom Dewey...
...favor of participation) "The Paris meetings will result in requests for help so high that the U.S. Congress will throw up its hands. Then Europe, disillusioned and bitter, will turn to us. So let us play along with the Paris conference, get the requests up as high as possible, and put the blame for failure...
...before he spoke at all. The Crimson editorialist fails altogether to grapple with the main question raised by the outshouting of Smith, which is: is it a denial of free speech for the audience to be rather louder than the man who is addressing it? Precedent is altogether in favor of the right to boo; hissing-down is a hoary Parliamentary tradition; if it appears indecorous, not cricket, or "rowdy," as your editorialist put it, pray recall that generations of English Lords have been experts at all manner of sibilances and razzberries. The demonstration was not really rowdy anyway...
...Summer School, which had held classes since 1871, was discontinued after 1941 in favor of the accelerated program for Army and Navy Reservists. This program was continued last year and again this summer, however, to meet the needs of veterans anxious to complete their education as quickly as possible...