Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think it is unquestionable," he concluded, "that the law will operate in favor of the large, established companies. . . . This no doubt accounts for the fact that comparatively little opposition to the bill has come from the large corporations...
Because Kansas is traditionally Dry, many an Eastern toper loudly vows that he will vote for no Kansan who, as President, might favor a return to Prohibition. Alf Landon used to like a drink himself, but now he and his guests get nothing stronger than Coca-Cola. No fanatic on the liquor question, he says he accepts the 21st Amendment as the nation's will...
...eyes of blue, wee Professor Muller has been experimenting in genetics at the Soviet Academy of Science in Leningrad. Some monstrous fruit flies which he grew under x-rays made the first news Texas had from him in three years. Professor Muller's book will probably find small favor in Austin. It discusses the possibility of breeding humans in the laboratory...
...wouldn't stomach the unamended Act in its current garbled form, Morgenthau's attempts to defend the bill have been tragic. Committee hearings disclosed first-that. Treasury experts had made absolutely no accurate estimates of the revenue available under the new taxes; second-that in practice the taxes would favor big corporations against the smaller firms; third-that the measure would increase the difficulties for firms with impaired capital and would be disastrous to the small, growing firm; fourth-that there were so many loopholes in the bill that a John Davis could drive the wooden horse of Troy through...
Both universities have valid arguments in their favor on the question involved, but it would not be impossible, we believe, to reconcile their different viewpoints rather than to accentuate them by further antagonism. It seems a pity that a break in athletic relations, no matter how minor, should occur between these two institutions now. Princeton can well testify to the unsatisfactory and inconclusive nature of this method of solution. On the other hand, abuse and impatience over a fait accompli brings the problem no nearer to a satisfactory conclusion...