Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest U. S. opium-smuggling catch in years, perhaps in all time. The Dollar Line was in danger of a fine of $400,000 for what was presumably the work of skulking yellow employees. At trial, a point in the Dollar Line's favor will be that, some time ago, it invited the U. S. to maintain customs officers aboard its ships. The U. S. declined...
...part of the continent-Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico-Nominee Robinson last week assaulted Intolerance, leading issue in that section. He flayed "a lot of women with short skirts and long necks" for the Whispering Campaign. He cried: "Neither the Republican nor the Demo cratic platform declares in favor of Prohibition." He said: "Senator Curtis and I are dry - nobody knows how dry we are!" Also, he mixed with Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette, in an argument of the kind that is thoroughly enjoyed in a country of long adjectives and short tempers...
...Baker also said: "I was not in favor of the Eighteenth Amendment, and I'd like to see it changed. My position was exactly the same as that of William Howard Taft, before he became Chief Justice...
...mind was working was revealed by two things he said to some Marylanders who came to see him: "Membership in a political organization is no disgrace," and, "Our campaign is based upon our issues. It is not a campaign of opposition. It is a campaign in favor of the issues and conditions in the Republican Party...
Tobacco Tycoon Bernhard Baron set aside last week a fund of ?500,000 ($2,430,000) to be administered in favor of Christian and Jewish hospitals, at the discretion of a board chairmanned by Rufus Daniel Isaacs, the Marquess of Reading...