Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April primary, the G. 0. P. of Ohio last week reached the first stage of real convalescence. Carmi Alderman Thompson, voluble Clevelander who led the late Senator Willis' presidential campaign and inveighed bitterly against the invading forces of Hooverism, withdrew his candidacy for the U. S. Senate in favor of Representative Theodore Elijah Burton, venerable Hoover leader. The Thompson withdrawal meant little in itself since the Thompson candidacy looked hopeless against Mr. Burton, who has been a distinguished Senator before now (1905-15). But the Thompson cry for party harmony ("which I prize more Highly," he said) was expected...
Walsh. Another who did not go to Houston was Thomas James Walsh, senior Senator from Montana, who withdrew his candidacy in favor of Smith after the latter won the California primary. Senator Walsh's comment on the nomination was: "Governor Smith is the most striking figure that has appeared on the political stage since Roosevelt...
Carrying out a tradition more than a century old, His Majesty's Faithful House of Commons petitioned George V to bestow "some signal mark of favor" on the retiring Speaker of the House, firm, courteous, precise John Henry Whitley (TIME, July...
...opposed to expansion. . . . We may even from time to time expand by the absorption of other desirable companies. We will expand in any way that will enable us to best serve the public and win its favor...
Waterways. ". . . We favor...