Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...empowers the Rules Committee to determine the order in which bills shall be considered, apportion time limits for general debate. Thus, by not giving a "rule" to bring a bill to the floor, the committee can effectively block action on any piece of legislation which its members do not favor. Since the Rules Committee is elected by the House and since the House contains an overwhelming Democratic majority, the present committee could usually be depended upon to put no obstacle in the way of Administration measures. Its highly abnormal behavior in the case of the Wages & Hours Bill...
...managers, were surprised by the violence with which he reacted in his October issue. "What comedy! What tragedy!" exploded Hartley W. Barclay in an article captioned The True Story of Weirton and illustrated with smiling Weirton workers. Claiming that Trial Examiner Edward Grandison Smith was "obviously prejudiced in favor of the C.I.O.," Editor Barclay called the NLRB "our Ogpu," found its trial methods "farcical," concluded: "This case should be declared a mistrial and dropped...
Satisfaction was discreetly shown at the British Foreign Office in London last week as dispatches from Shanghai urgently warned that its Japanese conquerors were about to stage a blatant "Victory Parade," with chances 10-to-1 in favor of some aggrieved Chinese patriot hurling a bomb...
...have any illusions that Dark Dancers is great music. . . . It's just a pleasant score. . . ." Not every composer is able or willing to give such an accurate estimate of his abilities. Though grey-haired, exuberant Charles Wakefield Cadman has been lately somewhat neglected by sophisticated music lovers in favor of younger and more sensational composers, he remains one of the very few highbrow U. S. musical figures whose names are known to the U. S. man in the street. Last week his five-year-old suite, Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras, received its first public Manhattan performance...
...making any decision the undergraduate opinion must also be considered. Yet when this broadcasting issue was raised before the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports at its recent meeting, the Council voted in favor of it, and thus lent the weight of undergraduate opinion towards this proposal...