Word: favors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Union expanding to 49 states to take in Alaska, more and more Americans want to bring in Hawaii to make it an even 50. So reports George Gallup, who polled the U.S. in the wake of the Alaska statehood fight, found 72% in favor of Hawaiian statehood compared to 65% in favor only five months ago. Sentiment was strongest in the West, but even the South, whose Congressmen have kept the Hawaiian statehood bill bottled up because of objections to Hawaii's racial mixtures, is a surprising 59% in favor...
...luncheon talk before the American Chamber of Commerce, then flew to Brazil's new capital, Brasilia, for a farewell dinner with Kubitschek. Then he headed back for Washington, where at week's end the Export-Import Bank announced that credits totaling $58 million in favor of the Bank of Brazil had been granted by a consortium of U.S. private banks, along with a $100 million credit from the Export-Import Bank itself...
...fluently, argue persuasively, and be charming. Cabot Lodge seemed just the man. To (give Lodge extra prestige and a voice in the policymaking, Ike made him a "personal member" of his Cabinet (Lodge's predecessor, Vermont's ex-Senator Warren Austin, had no Cabinet status). As a favor to Lodge, Ike let him name the deputy U.N. delegate. Lodge unhesitatingly picked shrewd, amiable James J. Wadsworth, then acting Civil Defense administrator. A boyhood friend of Cabot Lodge, Wadsworth, 53, is still his deputy, has proved to be a first-rate U.N. diplomat...
Even before the Argentine agreements were announced, many Brazilians were criticizing Petrobrás. In São Paulo, the authoritative daily Folha da Manhã ran a public-opinion poll, found that only 11% were in favor of Petrobrás as now run. More than 14% voted for strictly private enterprise, and more than 55% favored joint development by Petrobrás and private foreign and Brazilian companies...
...symptomatic of the bitterness that has grown between automakers and the United Auto Workers in the two months that they have worked without contracts. Both sides are gearing for the final showdown. Last week the U.A.W. announced that it had secretly polled its membership, found more than 90% in favor of a strike-unless the companies submit to the union's wage-and-benefit demands. This week the U.A.W. executive board will meet in Detroit to set a strike deadline...