Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the failure of the silver dollar and the two-dollar bill to win universal favor, the Treasury Department found itself printing (in 1926) 227,566,949 sheets of currency, a large proportion of which was in the form of one-dollar bills. It is the one-dollar bill that has been the great staple of U. S. currency. Even the most modestly salaried individual can "flash a roll" of ones. Homely, democratic, sanctified by custom, the one-dollar bill has been taken to the U. S. bosom, lovingly christened "bean," "buck," "berry," "simoleon," "iron man," "smacker," "plunk," "rock," "kelp...
Governor Fuller deserves praise for his latest decision in the review of the Sacco-Vanzetti case, both because he has seen fit to seek unofficial advice and because of the excellence of his choice. The three men chosen are eminently "respectable"--with no tinge of radicalism, no public favor to seek, and no political axe to grind. One of them is himself a member of the judiciary; another has been a member of the bar; all are men of many interests, without the fatal taint of narrowmindedness. Their appointment should reassure all but those who want the "dignity...
...Congressman Jefferson Davis of Mississippi spoke often in favor of state rights...
...will come the national campaign for U. S. Presidency, that Republican, Democratic and independent politicians will badger him for support. The president of the A. M. A. is chief of 94,000 of the 150,000 physicians and surgeons in the U. S. His favor is potent in nation affairs...
...University second crew has also tried the Lutz shell but rejected it in favor of the 1925 Pocock it has rowed in its two winning races...