Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Italians. Another racial question was raised last week when a Dr. Charles Fama of the Bronx, N. Y., promulgated the prophecy that 90% of the country's Italian-American vote would be pro-Hoover. The reason, according to Dr. Fama, was that Italians have been taught to favor "separation of church and state." Dr. Fama charged that secret orders were coming from Italy instructing U. S. Fascists to vote for Smith. Such orders, he said, would be indignantly disobeyed...
...Baldwin," said a punctilious newsgatherer, "would you favor us with an opinion on some political subject...
...Britannic] Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a National Home for the Jewish People...
There are seven Arabs in Palestine to every Jew, and they do not view with favor the British Mandate over Palestine which is making a national home for the Jewish people. Therefore the Arab majority has obstructed the supply of needed public funds; and today the budgetary deficit of Palestine stands...
...Scandals,* though not wholly civilized, are this year less natural and rugged in their charms, more universal in appeal. What is tuneful is combined with what is funny, what is stimulating is added to what is ennobling, though it must be remarked, in Producer White's favor, that he tried hard to control his appetite for the esthetic and only in one tedious scene did it master him completely. This was when a group of nuns were used as the background for a rendering of Ave Maria...