Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business men will favor Smith in the Democratic party and Dawes in the Republican. The Republicans, although heartily approving the efficiency of the Hoove administration, fear that if Hoover is elected there will come a severe bureaucracy, which will tend to shutting out the business men. The attitude is God help Hoover's successor...
...election-first whisper of vox populi-was in New Hampshire. Only 11 delegates were involved, but all came out instructed for or partial to Candidate Hoover. Senator Moses, a charter subscriber to Hooverism, polled the highest vote. One Everett R. Rutter, the sole would-be-delegate in favor of Calvin Coolidge, was defeated. Only four years ago when Senator Moses refused to run as a Coolidge delegate he suffered the outstanding political defeat of his astute career...
...result was no more significant than any other accident of geography and the calendar; and although only 17 States hold primary elections; leaving popular choice elsewhere in the hands of convention floorwalkers; and although the next pronouncement of -vox populi, in North Dakota, was scheduled to be unanimously in favor of Candidate Lowden, still the first actual balloting in the 1928 election had gone Hoover. Voters talked about it in other States and told each other what they knew about the Republican party's man-of-all-work whose friends now think he should be, as they call...
...following persons and institutions are in favor of Herbert Clark Hoover's nomination: Senators Moses, Gillett, Jones, Shortridge, Edge; Representatives Burton, Fort, Albert Johnson, A. T. Smith; Amelita Galli-Curci, Christopher Morley, Emil Fuchs, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Emory R. Buckener, George W. Wickersham, Louis Marshall, Elihu Root Jr., George Eastman; Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Will H. Hays; Secretaries Work, Wilbur, Jardine; Postmaster-General New; Assistant Secretaries Mills, Robinson, Brown; Governors Fuller of Massachusetts, Spaulding of New Hampshire, Green of Michigan, Brewster of Maine; the Hearst...
Almost complete apathy on the part of the Harvard undergraduates toward the proposal for a Stadium seating 80,000 people was the most marked evidence produced in last night's debate in the Union. Thirty-five undergraduates were present at the close of the discussion to vote in favor of the proposal, action upon which has been temporarily postponed by the Corporation. The later body had hoped to obtain a fairly definite idea of undergraduate opinion on the question. The subject of the debate seemed likely to attract a large interest; two years ago, the question of football overemphasis drew...