Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since ex-Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes left Harry Truman's service in 1947, he had kept mum about politics. His silence during the presidential campaign led fellow South Carolinians to wonder whether he looked on the Dixiecrats with favor. But not until last week did he let anybody know how he really felt about things: in the midst of a speech on foreign affairs he let loose a hot blast of scorn at the domestic Fair Deal...
...demanded that the jury not only see all the slips (twelve had been withheld as dangerous to national security) but all the FBI reports to which they referred. Government attorneys and the FBI objected wildly. But last week white-haired Federal Judge Albert Reeves decided in Archie's favor, ruled that the Government would have to produce the documents in court...
Labor faced bleak, uncertain months before the 1950 elections.* The leaders did not smother criticism from the delegates; they simply prevented any resolution from reaching the floor which could not command a resounding vote in favor. Fiery Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan did not denounce the opponents of full-speed nationalization. He seemed to have moved into the moderate camp of House Leader Herbert Morrison. What Bevan and Morrison asked the delegates for, and got, was a mandate to adjust the speed of nationalization to the economic and political weather ahead...
...Broadway hit and getting the season's top salary ($5,000 a week), is Tallulah Bankhead in Private Lives. Summer Veteran Edward Everett Horton, who has played Springtime for Henry perennially (at a profit of about $1,000,000), will give the old comedy a rest in favor of Present Laughter. Some of the other country hands: Helen Hayes (in a tryout of William McCleery's Good Housekeeping), Paul Lukas, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Eva Le Gallienne, Basil Rathbone, Mady Christians, Ann Harding, Elisabeth Bergner, Joan Blondell, Bert Lahr, Kay Francis...
This reaction is in direct contrast to the undergraduate vote, which was more than two to one in favor of permitting Communists to teach, except in the social sciences. The latter tally was 724 to 520 in favor...