Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Small Favor. But by now she was without a schoolhouse. Friendly parents let her teach in their homes. "It was no small favor," said Miss Seeds. "You should have seen the bathrooms." Her supporters went to the State Legislature, got a special grant of $300,000 for a new school. Two frame buildings were moved from a wartime airbase, tucked safely away in a rustic corner of U.C.L.A.'s campus, where Miss Seeds owes dominion not to the city but to the University...
...addition to hearing the reports from the delegates, the chapter placed itself on record as supporting the bill now in Senate Committee to raise subsistance allowances and gave unanimous consent to a resolution in favor of the Stratton bill which would admit 100,000 displaced persons per year for four years...
...cases, sentiment was overwhelmingly in favor of the proposed activities center...
...report of the President's Advisory Commission on Universal Training (TIME, June 9) seemed to have popular approval. Editorial writers largely cheered it, and the latest Gallup poll showed 74% of U.S. citizens in favor of enforced military training for U.S. youths. Bernard Baruch put U.M.T. high on his 16-point preparedness program. Last week, speaking as chairman of the newly formed, 120-member Citizens Emergency Committee for Universal Military Training,* Owen J. Roberts, former Supreme Court justice, added his voice. World affairs are approaching a crisis, he told the House Armed Services Committee. U.S. military weakness is accelerating...
Reactivated: H. L. Mencken, Baltimore's oldest volcano; by Columnist Earl Wilson, who interviewed him. The volcano showed its age; the new rumblings were as sensationally noisy as the outbursts of the '20s, but now they sounded a lot more hollow: "I'm in favor of war and hope it starts soon. . . . The country enjoys war. . . . [The Japanese] are the only intelligent Orientals. . . . There's not an honest man in China. That reminds me, no American Indian has ever been worth a jolly good God damn, either. . . . [On Harry Truman] That quack! ... [On Harold Stassen] Another...