Word: favors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant will testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee today in Washington in favor of Universal Military Training. Yesterday Don S. Willner '47, president of Students for Democratic Action, presented to the committee student non-Communist opposition to the proposal in behalf...
...arguments of efficiency and security are strong ones, but they unfortunately have tended to obscure certain more significant issues. Fundamentally, the result of any compulsory Student Activities Fee is to submerge the ideas and wishes of individuals in favor of the stability of a group...
...wish to attend Idler productions no longer has any choice in the matter; those who wished only one publication would have to subscribe to two; girls who might not have wanted to join any club would be forced to pay dues for two. The plan, in effect, acts in favor of lump spending rather than a critical choice of expenditures...
...Handel's most powerful opponent was Frederick, Prince of Wales. He and his young friends, who scorned everything his father, George II, chose to favor, set up an Opera of the Nobility to rival Handel's theater. Handel's enemies organized bands of hoodlums to tear down his posters, gave parties on the nights of his oratorios to make sure no one would attend. Sometimes Handel played to nearly empty houses ("My music will sound the better so!" he snorted). Sometimes, the King and his party made up nearly the entire audience. Quipped Lord Chesterfield on leaving...
...There are obvious reasons. First, William Randolph Hearst endorses MacArthur; second, so does Jim Curley; third, MacArthur used to enjoy posing for glorifying propaganda pictures. The few arguments in his favor don't balance the equation. The successful management of the Pacific campaign and the efficient administration of Japan after V-J Day don't mean a thing. No, the irretrievable damnation of self-esteem outweighs whatever might be said for him. He likes to dress up too much; he is a propagandist; he thinks a lot of himself, like Teddy Roosevelt did. Come hell or Henry Wallace, we must...