Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night's contest, and no decision was rendered by the audience on the merits of the debate. In a vote at the finish of the regular 18 minutes speeches, after several of the audience had aired their views on the subject, however, the audience went on record as in favor of the laws...
...bill by Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon designed to meet the objections of President Coolidge and at the same time retain the favor of citizens who think that a thing called the Equalization Fee spells emancipation for Honest John Farmer. Just exactly what Honest John Farmer thinks about it is hard to tell, because he raises such a variety of crops with such various success that his attitude toward national farm relief legislation varies greatly and his many spokesmen often disagree. But the new McNary Bill, not to be confused with the oldtime McNary-Haugen Bill of which this...
Agent Gilbert avoided denying to newsgatherers that he came to sound out Italians upon possible future modification of the Dawes Plan. He is known to favor assigning to Germany a definite total reparations debt in place of her present sliding commitments to the Allies. Moreover Agent Gilbert is thought to lean toward the scheme for raising money to fund most of the German indebtedness in cash, by placing on the market huge blocs of German railway & industrial bonds now held by the Reparations Commission...
...Boston in general to keep up with the Joneses. Modern street cleaning, modern night clubbing, and modern garages are all finding their way into the highways and byways of the former seat of ancestry and Louisa Alcott. And now the modern music is howling its insistent way into favor, in an effort to bring Boston further up to date. With the advent of Stravinsky aided by the Glee Club recently, Boston has seemed to be infused with a new desire for this type of music...
...Youthful reaction against materialistic concepts and in favor of reality in religion, social justice, human brotherhood and international peace...