Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...criticized "lesser of evils"--if that is the sorry state of American politics at this point. In Illinois, for example, there is no question that democratic-minded voters should unite to support Professor Paul Douglas against Wayland "Curly" Brooks, who cast one of the House Committee's votes in favor of slashing the ERP appropriation; the third party should join in this unity. And when they convene in Philadelphia June 21, Republican Party delegates should repudiate isolationism with all the emphasis they can muster...
Crown Prince Akihito, 14, is unsmirched by the war: to Japanese, he would be a spotless symbol. The prevalent view last week was that Hirohito would abdicate in his son's favor, with Hirohito's brother, Prince Takamatsu, assuming a regency until Akihito comes of age. Many Japanese who most urgently want to preserve the imperial institution are most in favor of Hirohito's stepping down...
...will not talk out of the corner of his mouth to Henry Wallace. Just now, at the most, he is getting near to that point. When will he be compelled to negotiate? I can give you the answer-when the balance of world force is sufficiently in the favor of the West, in other words, when we have Western Union-anyway Western military union-fully backed...
...long run would weigh heavily in the balance of power and peace. While the U.S. Congress still debated the issue, a majority of Americans had come to believe that their country should form an entangling alliance with Western Union. The Gallup poll reported that 65% were now in favor of U.S. military guarantees to Western Europe. Those were sentiments and opinions. But the Russians could understand them, or a Frenchman, or even a man from Mars...
...walls of Tiferet Israel synagogue. Now Tiferet Israel resembles a Dali-like nightmare with gaping walls and smashed dome. House after house is similarly blown down or crushed in by explosives. But the Jews are still holding on despite their hopeless position. The main thing in the Jews' favor is a labyrinth of underground passages through which they move from house to house...