Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sheboygan has been free of acts of violence attributable to the Kohler strike for the past year and a half. It has good government, law enforcement without fear or favor, progressive civic organizations...
...farm-prop cuts during the 1956 campaign. Quite the contrary, claimed Young, and added portentously: "Explain that to your farmers." Colorado's Gordon Allott suggested that the caucus might take advantage of the recession by casting the farm freeze as one of the antirecession pump-primers currently in favor with both the Administration and Congress. Utah's Arthur Watkins argued against a caucus resolution favoring the farm-freeze bill, pointing out that his fellow Mormon, Ezra Benson, would surely resign if Ike were to sign it. At that point, over the smeared luncheon dishes, the other Republican Senators...
...part joining the regular Republicans. In that breakup, the Republicans got saddled with U.S. Senator Bill Langer. And having got him, last week they tried to get rid of him: the state G.O.P. convention voted 348 to 177 on its fifth ballot to dump Wild Bill Langer, 71, in favor of Lieutenant Governor Clyde Duffy, 68. The convention vote will not prevent Langer from running in the party's June primary-and no one who knows stubborn Bill Langer thinks he will do anything else. In fact, even as the Republican delegates gathered, his Washington aides were holding...
...Dictator Accepts. Every right hand in the hall except Khrushchev's shot up in favor of the motion. Khrushchev sat with bowed head. Cheers volleyed off the walls. Mikoyan and the others wrung the boss's hand. Khrushchev stepped to the rostrum to say with apparent emotion; "I shall do everything to justify your confidence and shall not spare strength, health or life to serve...
...Hamburg the executive committee of the powerful Trade Union Federation met for seven hours in an emergency session. Though it refused to call for a general strike (as some had urged), it called upon its 6,000,000 members to stage demonstrations against nuclear arming, came out in favor of a plebiscite on the whole question. As 48,000 names were added to an antibomb petition circulating through twelve universities, 500 students from the Hamburg Engineering School marched silently through the Old City with placards saying "Remember Hiroshima!" Dock workers in Hamburg and auto workers in Brunswick went...