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Word: favorable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrangement was that Mrs. Webb should advance funds until Farrar's voice was ready to earn her an income. In return, Farrar's life was insured in Mrs. Webb's favor. It was all repaid, Farrar writes in her Geraldine Farrar, within two years after her return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Again, Farrar | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Continental Tobacco recently dressed its new cigaret "Barking Dog" with the strong armor of advertising. So far "Barking Dogs" success is indeterminable. More recently United Cigar Stores and Schulte retail stores quietly began to sell "Three Castles," made in England of Virginia tobacco. If "Three Castles" gains U. S. favor, it may become the brand that United Cigar and Schulte have been seeking to promote as their specialty since they merged their 5,000 retail stores as the Union & United Tobacco Corp. (TIME, Aug. 1). George J. Whelan, a founder of United Cigar Stores and for some years inactive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Old Gold Cigarets | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...favor, therefore, the mobilizing of every ounce of power and political efficiency that we have to enforce this amendment. I would not compromise upon the subject in any way, shape or form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: It's an Issue? | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

Once more oil resounded with a sickly "glub" throughout Mexico. This time, however, the "glub" was in favor of U. S. oil interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Oil Decision | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...American Petroleum and Transport Co., controlled by the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana) to restrain the Mexican Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Labor from canceling the oil drilling permits of the company (which the ministry had already done), the Supreme Court of Mexico passed judgment in favor of the U. S. concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Oil Decision | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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