Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curtail our wartime economic relations with fighting powers. In the opinion of many authorities this will keep us out of war. They assume that business likes a war. Professor Baxter pointed, however, to the last war before which, he claims business, fearful of increased government legislation, was decidedly in favor of peace...
...three professors who are speaking in favor of the President's proposal are Calvert Magruder, professor of law and vice-dean of the factulty of law, who specializes in torts and has been identified with the New Deal; Henry M. Hart, Jr. '26, assistant professor of legal history, who is an expert on federal jurisdiction and constitutional law; and Livingston Hall, assistant professor of law, who lectures on criminal...
...justices worthy to sit beside present members of the Court who understand those modern conditions-that I will appoint justices who will not undertake to override the judgment of the Congress on legislative policy . . . then I say that I and with me the vast majority of the American people favor doing just that thing-now." Strange Bedfellows. Boldly the President amended his Victory Dinner charge that his opponents now and last summer were one & the same, conceded that some liberals honestly differed with him about a Constitutional amendment v. his plan...
...years ago Heloise Martin, an 18-year-old sophomore majoring in psychology at co-educational Drake University of Des Moines, Iowa, took stock of her unusual physical advantages and decided in favor of a theatrical career in New York. She persuaded her father, a retired Naval lieutenant named Ora who was also tired of Des Moines, to accompany her. Brunette and shapely, Heloise got a job as a dancer on Captain Kay Parsons' Show Boat, making nightly excursions on the Hudson River. Within two weeks she left Captain Parsons to join the chorus of Rudy Vallee's Revels...
Contrasting the proposed organization of the course with the methods used by Dr. Worcester in the study of such subjects, "the undersigned" said they were in favor of "an open and sensible approach to marriage by Harvard Graduates." Men, preferably married, should furnish the instruction, and all problems from those of the pre-marriage stage to the cares of fatherhood were to be considered...