Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whites, 963 Negroes (all males). Thus the white majority in any election is safe, but the basis on which this is accomplished may not last forever. The House of Assembly of Bermuda last week put through a budget providing ample funds for the Government to propagandize Bermuda in favor of birth control, supply the necessary apparatus cheap to poor Negroes; further, to launch a determined fight on venereal disease by setting up free clinics. Only 20 of the 360 Bermuda Islands are inhabited. On a total area of 12,360 acres of which only 1,400 are under cultivation, live...
These speculative fireworks were not, as some irreconcilables suggested, a studied Democratic attempt to heap insult on the injury of Alf Landon's defeat. Neither was it a rising vote in favor of the New Deal. It might have been explained by the hopes & fears of Inflation, since the election insured a continuation of the New Deal's cheap money policy. But on one day 14 issues of Government bonds made new highs since issuance-not precisely an inflationary portent. Still another explanation might have been the continuing flood of extra dividends flowing from efforts to escape...
...political platform. Candidates generally ignored it in their speeches. No civic agency seemed greatly interested in its passage or defeat. Nevertheless, when the ballots were counted it was found that millions of yea-saying New Yorkers had voted Yes on the convention proposal, overwhelmingly recorded themselves in favor of doing something about their Constitution, although nobody had suggested what. The convention is scheduled to open on the first Tuesday of April...
British chanty leaders continued their efforts to curry favor with Mrs. Simpson. She was induced to attend a meeting of the Salvation Army addressed by General Evangeline Booth who spoke on "The World's Greatest Romance...
...from earning a substantial income until, on the average, he is thirty-three years old. The most obvious and practical way of meeting this problem in part, at least, is to intensify school work and shorten the college course to three years for those who desire it. In favor of long-term education are those who plead that a man is too young for college until he is nineteen, the advocates of inflexible concentration and distribution requirements, and many who demand years spent in broadening the student's horizan by browsing through purely cultural courses. All these views are perfectly...