Word: favor
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There are pros and there are cons to this discussion and even the non-resident undergraduate can offer certain of his views. Boston has these in its favor: the Charles River, the State House (architecturally speaking), the Public Gardens in the spring, an excellent array of burlesque houses, beans, the intersection of Boylston and Tremont streets on a windy day, an interesting and odiferous market section, an Irish aristocracy which came over on the Mayflower, an English aristocracy which came over so long ago that it has forgotten the exact era, a charmingly decrepit business district, and good train...
...Chamber of Commerce received another Presidential frown. Rebuked for insisting on a tax cut nearly double what the Administration considers safe, Banker Lewis Eugene Pierson of Manhattan, president of the U. S. Chamber, announced last fortnight that three-fourths of all Chambermen favor the U. S. assuming the entire cost of Mississippi flood control instead of 80% of construction costs and 90% of realty costs as recommended by President Coolidge (TIME, Dec. 5, Dec. 26). Last week President Coolidge said that while some of the U. S. Chamber's activities are "helpful", others are not. He said he understood that...
...cabinets issued a communique not only approving the experts' plan for direct financial relief to East Prussia but recommending further aid in the form of reduced taxes on East Prussian farms and real estate, as well as lowering of the freight tariffs on the German State Railways in favor of East Prussian goods...
...indicative of the opinions held by its members individually, for this reason: The local Chamber of Commerce has a membership of over thirteen hundred. Without first obtaining an expression from the individual members, six ballots were cast on the question. The reported result was five to one in favor of the $400,000,000.00 reduction. Was this the opinion of the group or merely the opinion of six men who might have been prejudiced on the question? Assuming that all other Chambers of Commerce throughout the country cast their ballot in the same way, is the stand of the United...
...odds favor the University outfit, as both Harvard and Princeton defeated Yale at the chess matches during the football season, and Yale succeeded in vanquishing West Point...