Word: favors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican Congress tried to buy the farmer's vote with the McNary-Haugen bill, but Calvin Coolidge twice vetoed it; Henry Wallace bought the farmer and got away with it. Secretary Brannan's program was an even higher bid for the U.S. farmer's favor than any Henry had thought up. Said the New York Times's Arthur Krock: ". . . no more wondrous pill was ever compounded in the pharmacy of politics." The National Farmers Union, itself an expert concocter of pills, thought the Brannan plan was really wonderful, hailed it as a "milestone." The powerful American...
...court had found in favor of Britain, but postponed the assessment of damages. "If we get any cash," said a British official, "I shall be pleasantly surprised...
Eight Liberal Union members attended the national convention of Americans for Democratic Action in Chicago last week and successfully sponsored a policy in favor of letting any student group form a club, regardless of political views...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, was unable to testify because of his morning lecture schedule. Mather was named an active supporter of Communist fronts last week by Joseph B. Matthews, ex-Dies Committee investigator, who spoke in favor of the proposed amendment...
Most of the testimony in favor of S 133 was collected by the Massachusetts Committee for Equality in Education, which summoned more than a dozen witnesses who had encountered racial and religious discrimination in their personal dealings with educational organizations in the Commonwealth...