Word: favors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dartmouth started making real noise with its visits in the twenties. It was then that the Indian fanatics centered their merry-making in hotel lobby riots. But by the late 'thirties this brand of deviltry disappeared in favor of the more inviting Yard raid...
...distinction between being in favor of me and being against you is a difficult one to draw. But, the world being in the delicately balanced state that it is, fine distinctions can be most important. Nothing, except appeasement, is more likely to cause a war than aimless provocation. God knows, we haven't been guilty of appeasement this time. But there is a pattern of unthinking opposition in our foreign policy which is exceedingly dangerous...
...make her dramatic, last-minute plea for more money and arms for Nationalist China last December, Madame Chiang Kai-shek asked the U.S. for a favor: she needed suitable air transport between Nanking and Washington. The U.S. Government fixed her up handsomely. The Military Air Transport Service brought her to California in a Navy plane, flew her and her party (a general, a maid, two secretaries) the rest of the way in the old presidential DC-4, the Sacred...
...East Coast's Trans-Lux theater chain had shocked the industry by passing up Walt Disney's Ichabod and Mr. Toad in favor of The Fallen Idol for its Washington house...
...House drafted a bill allowing 90 percent fixed parity, which was rejected by the Senate in favor of the flexible scheme. During the 1948 campaign, President Truman promised the farmers to do everything possible to maintain a fixed parity based on some prior period of high farm prices. It is now the problem of the Administration to secure legislation which will make good these promises...