Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attitude was virtually the same as it was to Tom Dewey's overtures: he would not let himself be used by either candidate until his mind was made up on their foreign-policy intentions. He made a careful distinction between Candidate Roosevelt and President Roosevelt: "I would much prefer that... no conference occur until after the election. But if the President of the United States wishes to see me sooner, I shall of course comply." With equal impartiality, Willkie had been willing to talk "bipartisan" foreign policy with Tom Dewey's friend, John Foster Dulles...
...general, investment bankers do not like competitive bidding for securities, although it is required on railroad securities by the ICC decision of May 8, 1944. They prefer the comfortable, traditional, negotiated transaction between client and banker. And Great Northern's offering is just twice as large as the $50 million total which bankers generally believe is the top amount practicable under competitive bidding. To handle the Great Northern bonds, each syndicate must be extra-large. Hence, Wall Street does not expect that more than two or possibly three vast enough financial groups can be mobilized for the bidding...
...Here is your first eleventh-century church! . . . Serious and simple to excess! is it not? Young people rarely enjoy it. They prefer the Gothic. ... No doubt they are right, since they are young: but men and women who have lived long and are tired, who want rest . . . feel this repose and self-restraint as they feel nothing else. The quiet strength of these curved lines, the solid support of these heavy columns, the moderate proportions, even the modified lights, the absence of display, of effort, of self-consciousness, satisfy them as no other art does. They come back...
...direct ratio to their remoteness from civilization, soldiers prefer Betty Grable to all other women. They also strongly favor Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Lena Home, Alice Faye, Ginny Sinims, Betty Hutton. Favorite dramatic actresses are Ingrid Bergman, Greer Garson, Bette Davis...
...both all-Negro musicals. In the Southwest Pacific the favorite film is Casablanca. Cover Girl, with Rita Hayworth, is a current favorite in Normandy. Documentaries are generally unpopular, but soldiers everywhere want more newsreels, even old ones, because of the glimpses they give of home. Many soldiers prefer old newsreels to new pictures, and a good old film still draws bigger G.I. audiences than a bad new one. In Rome, where a Red Cross movie man dug up an old print of It Happened One Night, in which Claudette Colbert still wears bangs, the film played to capacity houses thrice...