Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beneath the whole episode grew a sentiment in the Senate for a change in its rules to do away with secret executive sessions on nominations. Polls showed many more than a majority of Senators in favor of some escape from their present embarrassing position...
...glad that England has at last made this reparation to the Saint," said the just Bishop. "Joan was always in favor of peace between the English and French forces. Four times she sent heralds to bring about an armistice. At her trial, when someone suggested that she was inspired by hatred of the English, she replied, 'God does not hate the English...
Senate on Sugar. In 1924 the Tariff Commission made an investigation of sugar, prepared a report recommending tariff changes, submitted it to President Coolidge. This report, at the time, was supposed to favor a substantial reduction of the sugar duty. A candidate for reelection, President Coolidge pigeonholed the report, delayed action. After he was elected, he refused to make...
Profits on eleven billion dollars swung closer to U. S. railroads and their owners last week when the U. S. Supreme Court decided in favor of the St. Louis and O'Fallon R. R. in its dispute with the Interstate Commerce Commission on the most fundamental issue in the transportation world-valuation. The Supreme Court, five to three, ruled that the I. C. C. had failed to give to "current reproduction value" the consideration Congress intended in the Transportation...
...discarded. There are some aspects of it which will in all probability remain as long as the colleges do, for the human attachment to ceremony is strong. Commencement crowds look for a certain amount if it, but in a university where oratory has generally sunk so low in undergraduate favor, it would seem that if unwilling Seniors must still speak at their graduation, the audience might be given the choice of a counter-attraction...