Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In your issue of Jan. 9 you give an illuminating review of the various farm relief plans. On most of them you offer brief and intelligent comment, but you present Farmer Campbell's plan without comment, which makes me half afraid that you favor it. The gist of his plan is to industrialize farming and conduct it on a Ford-factory basis. Under his plan, the agricultural land of America would be held by a comparatively few individuals and corporations, and it would be operated by hired labor, just as steel mills and automobile factories are operated...
Stony-jawed Senator James A. Reed of Missouri fired a few salvos at the routed Republicans, took a fling at Prohibition and then, himself hopeful of his party's highest favor, paid dutiful compliments to Democratic heroes, including the hero whom he had fought most bitterly, Woodrow Wilson...
...with Julien a poet and "pillar of a cabaret" as Louise's mother succintly describes him. Julien has written frankly to the parents to ask for Louise's hand in marriage. The poet's careless life and invisible income do not prepossess the somewhat strait-laced parents in his favor, and they refuse his offer. Louise promises to clope with her lover if the opposition continues. After a fantastic picture of Montmartre at night in which the rag-pickers, the small coals dealer, the old clothes man and other peddlars philosophize upon life, the scene changes to Louise's workshop...
...valid raison d'etre for intercollegiate football in its present form. Regardless of all the other merits of the problem, the money making potentiality of football, necessary as it is in the absence of any other means of supporting athletic exercises, is sufficient to swing the scales in its favor. It is the ultimate argument for bigger stadia, better athletes, and more publicity...
...rising vote the audience at New York at the close of the debate decided in favor of the Columbia speakers, who had expounded upon the fitness of Smith. In the debate with Boston College last Wednesday night in Symphony Hall the audience also voted in favor of the opponents of the University...