Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the H.A.A. has no statement to make; unofficially both points brought up by Farmer are denied emphatically. The N.C.A.A. decision was definitely and unequivocally in favor of Harvard, and Harvard representatives did not agree to the scoring system used...
...enables a man to meet stated requirements but upon the fact that it enables him to understand problems and seize opportunities to which he would otherwise be blind. The private schools do not require technical study of Education, although some of them are beginning to value it; but they favor intensive scholarship in a subject and offer more opportunity to teach in one chosen field, without the burden of teaching in unrelated fields--than many of the public schools. The new Harvard program for the preparation of teachers meets all these conditions. It puts the prospective teacher in a position...
...Your subcommittee of the Ways & Means has pending . . . [the Guffey] bill to stabilize the bituminous coal mining industry. . . . All doubts should be resolved in favor of the bill leaving to the courts, in an orderly fashion, the ultimate question of constitutionality. A decision by the Supreme Court relative to this measure would be helpful as indicating, with increasing clarity, the constitutional limits within which this Government must operate. . . . I hope your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation...
...Jerusalem artichokes (for alcohol), slash pine (for paper). A "Pioneer Cup" was awarded to Leo Hendrik Baekeland, father of the plastic industry (Bakelite), though that aging chemist did not bother to come out of his Florida retirement to receive it in person. Mr. Garvan delivered his usual harangue in favor of blending alcohol with gasoline. But most of the speakers were either technical experts or working vice presidents of corporations in the organic chemistry field, and they stuck to their subjects. Some Chemurgician subjects...
...conclusion is amply supported by the many instances cited of committees whose members have interests adverse to those of the investors whom they purport to represent; of committees whose mode of organization and subsequent activities are calculated to discourage the investigation and prosecution of possible causes of action in favor of bondholders or of the debtor; of committees which have profited extensively from their trust by voting themselves payments for expenses, compensation and otherwise; of committees which have distributed patronage to attorneys, depositaries, secretaries, agents and others with a liberal hand; and of committees which, if not actually injuring investors...