Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then, with no false ideas of his own son's looks, scoured the neighborhood for a handsome model. The curly-headed subject was inveigled away from a sand-lot baseball game. The pic ture was snapped with the aid of two photoflood bulbs and Artist Ward's favor ite camera, a primitive battered box known as a "Monitor," introduced by Rochester Optical Co. in 1895 and withdrawn from production four years later...
...Director Jordan on a deferred payment plan, undertook to buy the rest of the Fry stock for the company's treasury. The idea behind this plan was to equalize the holdings of four directors, including Adman Thornley. All the trusteed stock was voted in a block in favor of the plan, Trustee Thornley being unable to swing the other three trustees to his side. The final vote: 4,000 shares to 626,023 shares...
...fact remain, however, that "It Can't Happen Here" is a creditable piece of work. Much, of course, is lost in the transference, much of the depth and background of the characters' lives has been sacrificed in favor of the more melodramatic happenings of the book. There is no denying, however, that some of the political characterizations, the mob scenes, the insolent brutality of armed ruffians, the gripping terror but persistent courage of the Jessup family become realities in the mind of the spectator...
...action in carefully replacing a capable postmaster in Boston with a politician chosen by James M. Curley. Now that Curley is on his way out, Mr. Roosevelt seems to be turning a cold shoulder on him, but when Curley was at the height of his power this unsavory favor was granted...
Defending Rooseveltian policies, the Harvard Debating team won out at Yale by an overwhelming vote of the audience. With 500 people attending the debate in the Auditorium, the vote was about 375 to 125 in favor of the Crimson orators, who upheld the negative of the question, "Resolved: That this House favors the election of Alfred M. Landon as president of the United States...