Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...denied that His Majesty has contemplated any change, or asked the Prime Minister to tender his resignation in favor of the Duke of Alba. The great fitness of the Duke to head the Cabinet is acknowledged by all. The present Prime Minister -would never stand...
...silk cocoon crops.- Bearing well in mind fragile, brown, papery cocoons. Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye last week chose Jan. 11, 1930 as the date for putting Japan's currency {yen) back on a stabilized gold basis. The stabilization credits of $25,000,000 each in favor of the Imperial Government were opened at New York and London las! week by J. P. Morgan & Co. with U. S. and British associates. That Japan can stabilize on so small a credit-Britain required $300,000,000 when she stabilized in 1925-is due partly to the fact that Tokyo...
...opera on the radio (TIME, Nov. 18). In secret he has struggled with the commissioned opera. His first choice of subject was Candle Follows his Nose, short story by his one-time (New York World) colleague Columnist Heywood Broun. Last spring he announced that he had shelved Candle in favor of Street Scene (TIME, March 18), current Pulitzer-prizewinning play by Elmer Rice, about Manhattan tene- ment life. Last week he announced that he had again changed his mind, that he is now moulding a libretto from George Louis Palmel la Busson Du Maurier's novel Peter Ibbetson, famed...
Still another argument against a virtual requirement of this sort is the admirable one brought up in the article above referred to to the effect that men are likely to look with favor upon food, the eating of which is optional and scorn that which they are in any sense forced to eat. It may be absurd, but it is undeniably true as the case of Emmanuel College concretely shows...
...Vatican City last week one prelate firmly said: "Etiquette decrees that a Catholic sovereign must kneel to the Pope and kiss his toe." But among Fascisti belief was current that His Holiness will decree a special exemption in favor of Vittorio Emanuele, "King by the Grace of God and the Will of the People...