Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers were at a loss to see how Senator Curtis could be anything but a "favorite son" at the national convention. They were surprised that so astute a politician as Senator Curtis could regard himself as a serious contender for the favor of the many sections and factions which must be milled and swept together before 555 votes are accumulated for any one at the G. O. Party's big panjandrum. And yet-and yet- And yet the earwig that entered many a Senatorial ear with Senator Harding's nomination in 1920, was a most irresistible earwig...
...drawing to a close, it is fitting that, as a Nation, and as individuals, in accordance with time-honored sacred custom, we should consider the manifold blessings granted to us. While in gratitude we rejoice, we should humbly pray that we may be worthy of a continuation of divine favor...
Lord Rothermere, brother of the late Lord Northcliffe, challenged by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to declare himself either for or against the Conservative Party, replied last week by coming out in The Weekly Dispatch in favor of ex-Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Thus has the great British newspaper magnate shifted his support from the Conservative to the Liberal Party...
...Favor. "Let the Federal Reserve System alone" was a caution wholeheartedly endorsed. Said Melvin Alvah Traylor, retiring president of the Association: "Nothing could be more unfortunate than that there should be further legislative action with respect to our banking system." In the absence of U. S. Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, kept at home through illness in his family, discussion on foreign loans was dropped...
...system, Assistant Professor R. M. Eaton has merely repeated and emphasized the attitude which President Lowell made clear in his Annual Report for 1925-1926. In that document the President said that "courses are an invaluable means to the end and there is no intention of abandoning them in favor of the more exclusively tutorial system of Oxford and Cambridge." In view of this position, those who have heretofore looked upon the Harvard plan as but the rudimentary shoots of an eventual Oxford replica may well consider the University's system not in the light of an evolving thing--although...