Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relieved by the Gallup poll report that the Republicans had fallen to second place in U.S. favor (TIME, March 10). Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. roasted his colleagues by inserting an editorial from the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram in the Record. Said the editorial: "It is high time an aroused public opinion again reminded the Republican Party why it was chosen at the polls last November. ... In an atmosphere of political pussyfooting, the Republicans have been eyeing...
...January (at Chiang's urging) by China's National Assembly. Throughout both Destiny and Economic Theory, Chiang 1) attributes China's revolution (and the need for it) almost entirely to the Westernizing "corruption" of the unequal treaties; 2) rejects democracy in the Western sense in favor of the class "equilibrium" of Confucius; and 3) advocates a "Chinese" system of economics which rules out free enterprise capital as a dynamic factor on the one hand, and rejects the class struggle on the other...
Boxing, slated to got under way with a tournament on Wednesday, has been cancelled in favor of an all-College boxing tourney to take place the week of March 17. Entrants in eight classes, ranging from 121 pounds to unlimited, will be accepted. Winners in the preliminary wrestling bouts this afternoon will fight their final matches on Thursday...
...ocean-flying airplanes made the winds important again. Last week the PICAO (Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization), which provides planes with valuable weather information, was planning ways to standardize its service internationally. The idea is to help pilots of all countries and languages make the winds work in their favor...
...Broom. Knowing this, McCloy refused the presidency when it was first offered to him in December. But he dished out a blunt appraisal of the Bank's faults. McCloy's bluntness won such favor that Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder offered him the job again-on his own terms...