Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notice of it this time was the fact that Harry Truman was putting it before a Democratic Congress which might very well give him a number of the things for which he asked. House Speaker Sam Rayburn last week asserted confidently that Congress would receive the program with "considerable favor." Democratic Congressman Robert ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, was not so sure about one point. Said he: "The country will not look very favorably on increased taxes until the people are convinced that we are not wasting money...
...friends could say in his favor that he had also proved himself an honest and able public servant, with a quick, retentive mind, inexhaustible vigor, and considerable political courage. His point of view, born of the Dust Bowl, was honestly arrived at and stoutly held...
...days last week the chances for peace in Palestine looked good. The Jews had won their immediate objective-an Egyptian offer to cease fire and talk armistice terms. They quickly accepted. But at week's end the odds in favor of peace were off again...
...that U.S. marines were leaving their base at Tsingtao (where they had been training Chinese navy personnel). The report was quickly denied by Washington, but it was nonetheless true that plans had been made for their withdrawal. From all sides, pressure increased on Chiang Kai-shek to retire in favor of a Chinese leader more acceptable to the Communists...
...Catholic Argentina this was a sensation; gossip soon whispered that Peron, had asked his good friend Cardinal Copello, as a favor, to get rid of Dunphy. The Cardinal visited Dunphy at his church last fall and suggested-"very suavely," says Father Dunphy-that he ought to resign. Just before Christmas, police held the priest for eight hours while they tried to make him admit authorship of an anonymous pamphlet called "Liberty," "I am in accord with what it says," Dunphy assured them, "but it is not in my style, and I did not write...