Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Speaks. Bursting with self-confidence, the President said that he thought the proposed cloture rule should be even more drastic than the one Russell Long & Co. were talking down. He said he would favor applying cloture by a simple majority vote. Under such a rule, 25 Senators (a simple majority of a functioning quorum of 49) would be able to end a Senate debate...
...secret session, the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) voted 118-to-11 last week in favor of the government's decision to join the Atlantic Pact discussions in Washington. The no votes were cast by the Storting's eleven Communists...
...Council reaffirmed its desire for a food survey last week after the results of a college-wide poll had shown a four to one majority in favor of a survey...
...itself in preserving the Republic . . . If this resolution is adopted, who will be the first on the list to feel its wrath! . . . It will be the South . . . Is big business next on the list! There is such a thing as legitimate big business. When it is right, I certainly favor it. Its bigness has done a great deal of good . . . Mr. President, debate is the greatest governmental and political invention man has ever been able to make...
When he was elected President of Argentina in 1946, Juan Domingo Perón had two visible means of political support. One was the army, whose ruling clique he headed. The other was labor, especially what he dubbed the descamisados (literally: shirtless ones), whose favor he had won (by wage boosts, social benefits, etc.) in a shrewdly realistic move to offset any fickleness among his army pals. In the past month many Argentines had noted that the army, fed up with mounting inflation and the politicking of Perón's wife Eva, had ceased to be the prop...