Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...move is by no means novel, having been successfully taken at the games held in 1912, and it cannot be denied that it has in its favor some very attractive features, at least from the point of view of those whose unfortunate duty it will be to police the sturdy participants. Sequestered in the harbor of Amsterdam during the evenings of their stay in the Low Countries, the brawn especially selected by the United States to keep it at the pinnacle of the world's athletics will not be in any great danger of deteriorating. The few weeks spent...
...proposed trip of combined Yale and Harvard Golf team to meet an Oxford and Cambridge combination in England next summer received added impetus when the Harvard Athletic Committee voted, at a meeting last night, to look with favor on the plan. Definite arrangements will be deferred until the Committee has the opinion of the Yale authorities on the project...
...Roman Catholic. To newsgatherers he said: "If Smith is nominated, he will be elected. . .. Governor Smith stands for the same things that Woodrow Wilson stood for. Wilson stood for enforcement of law, and so does Smith. Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act and Smith is against it and in favor of amending it for the same reasons that Wilson vetoed it. I don't want to question the motives of some of the prominent men of the Democratic party who are opposing the nomination of Smith for President, but I am quite sure that if the real truth was known...
...religious activity and be longs to the Church ; in U. S. theory it is a secular activity and belongs to the State.* According to the Roman Catholic Church (Pope Leo XIII): "It is not lawful for the State ... to disregard all religious duties or to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion"; the Supreme Court of the U. S. has stated that our "law is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect." On marriage and divorce, U, S. law and Catholic law vary widely...
...other points of departure for "flights of puerile fancy" by Associated Press "poets." The employment of Publicist Bruce Barton for his famed "human interest" interview with President Coolidge in the Adirondacks last summer was cited as an example of Associated Pressure. More sinister, the possible connection between this favor from the Administration and the A. P.'s obliging treatment of U. S. Department of State propaganda against Mexico, was broadly hinted. Reason for lapses in the Associated Press's "proper sense of proportion" was suggested by the statistics on the A. P.'s growing rival, the United...