Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While many of the voters scurried to their dictionaries, a majority of the House voted in strong favor of "pre-marital interdigitation." a small but determined minority came out in favor of the idea, but felt that "just a little" was permissable especially "when you're engaged." At the same time, a rumor emanating from the Press agents along Bow Street was supported when 58% of the House decided "that beautiful women do go to college." A minority felt that it was a "waste of talent...
Viceroys & Mailboxes. To regain official favor and explode the notion that Britain is washed out as a great power, the British had brought up big guns like Lord Temple-wood and ex-War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, scheduled ex-Viceroy of India Lord Linlithgow to follow. Said Lord Templewood last week: "Enemies point to our war wounds and say that we are already dead or dying. ... If you want a good tip, my British fellow countrymen and my Argentine friends, put your money again on the horse that so often won in the past and is still capable of running...
...matter of elementary economic interest of the United States for us to favor the proposed loan," Professor Mason asserted. "It is not a commercial proposition: it is merely a loan from the U.S. to Britain, in which she gets financial assistance and in return gives us cooperation in promoting our international program. Without her cooperation we can't get anywhere. And without the loan, Britain cannot participate fully in the program...
...order that members of Congress may understand that the forces opposing the Wyatt housing program and the OPA are those of vested interest, it is imperative that every veteran let them know the opinion of the common citizen, which, I am convinced is overwhelmingly in favor of these measures," Roosevelt declared...
...solutions. Business and farm groups envision a speculator's paradise in which they will make a quick, sure killing; the amended Price Control Act is the result of their wondrous wishful thinking. The inflation that may soon follow would be tragic for most Americans, the large majority of whom favor blanket renewal of the OPA for another year. With elections approaching, Congress is gambling-but national inflation is hardly worth the risk...