Word: favors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself could be labeled just so much horn blowing in a traffic jam, but the effect of Hoffa's campaign, both in Washington and the field, was to embarrass the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which kicked Hoffa out a year and a half ago. Meany is on record in favor of the Kennedy bill's restrictions against Hoffa's hoodlum unionism, but at the same time he opposes the minor "Bill of Rights" amendments, which would also curb activities of unions in general. Result: if he continues to support the bill, some of his A.F.L.-C.I.O. supporters may rebel...
Harvard is being duped by this conspiracy, Veritas asserts, and it has thus come to favor "left-wingers" in all branches of University activity: in conferring honorary degrees, of fering lectureships, appointing to the Faculty, nominating for the Board of Overseers. Of course, Veritas members employ a fairly inclusive definition of "left-wing"; they condemn the "Welfare State" (social security, farm price supports) and and "subversive internationalism" (United Nations, foreign aid programs...
Mosque & State. One reason for the current bitterness of Turkish politics is that Republicans fear that Menderes, to stay in power, is undoing the separation of mosque and state decreed by the late great Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic. To win favor in the devoutly Moslem countryside, Menderes has provided government funds for a vast mosque-building program, reintroduced religious instruction in the nation's primary schools, and encouraged the reading of the Koran over the state radio. To emancipated Turks, religious rule recalls the stifling, narrow days of the old Ottoman caliphate...
...London, England, the Rev. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, past president of Britain's Methodist Conference, came out in favor of legalizing mercy killing. General Practitioner Dr. Maurice L. Millard, 58, whose father founded England's Euthanasia Society 22 years ago, had touched off a debate on the subject in the British press with his bland statement in a Rotary Club speech that he had recently given a suffering patient, near death from cancer, a lethal dose of a drug, after she had "made her peace with God" and settled her affairs. "What I did . . . was to give...
...County (Houston) grand jury announced that it was looking into a charge that two board members had "pecuniary" interest in last year's purchase of a new school site. Whatever the outcome, the Aldine school system was already a proven mess. Many a weary citizen spoke out in favor of a sad but sound solution: give all of Aldine's schools to Houston...