Word: favors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides Miss Parkers' letter, pro NSA forces will receive help from a Student Council bulletin citing the Council's reasons for voting to return to NSA. To be delivered to every room in the College, the note urges students to vote in favor of rejoining...
McDonald later proposed that the President's board of inquiry, which was set up under the Taft-Hartley Act, recommend the terms of a settlement; he promised to settle "within the framework of the board's recommendations." The President turned down the suggestion in favor of another try at collective bargaining. In high moral tones that stressed the nation's welfare, both sides pledged once more to forge ahead for a settlement-then went right back to bickering...
Teacher's Lesson. Strong man of the corporal's guard defending the subdivision was Homeowner Theodor Repsholdt, a high-school teacher. "I am a resident of Deerfield and teach your children American history," said he. "I'm a Lutheran and I'm in favor of an integrated community." Catcalls from the floor: "Resign! Fire him." Repsholdt squared his shoulders, continued: "One thing is fortunate. If there is any shortage more acute than the shortage in housing, it is the shortage of teachers. I'm not frightened about losing my job." Repsholdt got a big hand...
Dinner guests at the Soviet embassy spread the word that the cuisine and cellar were excellent. Mme. Vinogradov, an amateur painter herself, began encouraging young French artists to drop around, even abstractionists, whose decadent works would never find favor in Moscow. And soon columnists were speculating on which London tailor the ambassador might be patronizing...
...testified that the Reichstag fire resulted from a well-planned Communist conspiracy. Van der Lubbe, who acted like an idiot during the trial. was sentenced to death and executed. But Bulgarian Communist Codefendant Georgi Dimitrov-later to become Communist boss of Bulgaria and then fall from Stalin's favor for Titoism-and three other prominent Communists had to be freed for lack of evidence...