Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that this program will bring mutual economic advantage to this country and to other countries, and that the resulting economic stimulus and improvement in the world will lessen the burdens placed upon governments. Further, the improved opportunity and the increased hope which the enlarged international trade will bring should favor the maintenance of peace. It is imperative that all peoples regain the realization that through trade their condition can be improved, and that on the other hand, war can bring nothing but misery to all participants. The leadership of governments is needed to again draw men's attention...
...Novelist Owen Johnson of Stockbridge, Mass., a realtor from Manhattan, a club woman from Baltimore, an insurance man from Jersey City, etc., etc. Also present as ex-officio testers were the Federal Judge of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Oliver B. Dickinson (one of 25 Federal Judge out of favor at the White House, for he is 79), Comptroller of the Currency J. I T. O'Connor, and the two gentlemen who were to do most of the work, Joseph 5 Buford, Chief Assayer of the U. S. Assay Office in Manhattan and Dr. F. S. Holbrook...
...nine Realists were once members of a group that called itself The Eight,* and was formed about 1908 to show these paintings which academicians of the time were regarding with all the horror that their descendants now save for rabid surrealists. Though they were ardently in favor of their associates' ambition to paint the New York life that surrounded them, Artists Arthur B. Davies and Maurice Prendergast never painted that sort of picture. They were thus omitted from last week's show and their places taken by three of Robert Henri's ablest pupils : Bellows, Glenn Coleman...
Parker's point, and he hammered it throughout 30 days of crossexamination, was that the Tribune repaid this major favor by printing Swanson's remarks after the embezzlement case and so increasing the state's attorney's political stature...
...been translated, but most of it reads like doggerel.* To that the all- Russian retort is: non-Russians will have to take Pushkin on faith, be satisfied with the Red-&-White assurance that Pushkin is indeed Russia's Poet. Last week the circumstantial evidence in Pushkin's favor was further bolstered up by a scholarly, 484-page biography, by a critical manifesto by four Marxist writers,± by nationwide commemoration exercises in U. S. colleges...