Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of such an even contest for points in conceded events throws the final decision as to whether the long line of Yale victories is to be broken, into the second and third places. If Haggerty's figures hold good, a change of two points in the favor of Harvard will result in victory. On the other hand, a failure to make a clean sweep of the two mile, or to take third in the 220 or 440, will give the opponents a lead of even more than three points...
...Baker, Thomas J. Walsh, James A. Reed, and Albert C. Ritchie were put in nomination following Roosevelt's speech. A. F. Reel '28 nominated Senator Burton K. Wheeler and a demonstration followed. C. C. Alpern '28 made a parody of Bryan's famous "Cross of Gold" speech, in favor of Senator J. T. Henin of Alabama, but his candidate received no votes on the second ballot...
Last week's ruling in favor of Senator Couzens by the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals not only upheld his 1919 tax payment but found it had been about $500,000 too large. The Couzens case, whether designed by Secretary Mellon or brought out in line of duty, was a backfiring flivver...
...Into the Committee of the whole-which is the compact form the House takes during the reading of major bills-Representative Aswell of Louisiana introduced a bill omitting the equalization fee and asked that it be substituted for the McNary-Haugen measure. The Committee of the whole voted in favor. Hubbub then reigned, because the members could not agree as to precisely what had happened, whether a whole new bill had been substituted or just an amendment. When the whole House met, the McNary-Haugenites settled the matter by passing their bill, 204 votes...
...unwisdom of sacrificing old friends to gain new ones." Thereupon he was heavily taken to task by the Olympian London Times, which usually supports him but declared last week: "The French position is specifically and narrowly French. . . . British opinion in this country and the Dominions is very strongly in favor of ... the American proposal. ... It would be an advantage if that [fact] could be stated . . . formally and emphatically ... by the Foreign Secretary...