Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...income taxes for the years 1931 and 1932.* Franklin Roosevelt's legislators were put to work and the next year, restricted in their use of capital losses, Morgan & Co. paid heavily. They paid, but they appealed, and in due time the Bureau of Internal Revenue ruled in their favor. Last week the Treasury announced their refunds, as follows...
...Chief favor which Dictator Trujillo seeks from Washington is control over Dominican Customs, now collected by the U. S. to insure payment of interest on old loans...
Last fortnight Lord Beaverbrook's Hearst-like London Sunday Express demanded that hopelessly unfit oldsters should be retired at once in favor of nimbler men, who, as directors of industry, would then be exempt from the draft. Suggesting that shareholders look over their boards of directors, the Express advised a test: "Ask the chairman if he can ride a bicycle. If he can't, then get a new chairman...
...justly-famed cool weather, few delegates even bothered to attend the meetings-though smart pressagentry managed to fill the Opera House for one series of dull speeches. As usual, the convention delivered itself of some earnest "Whereas-es" and "Be-it-resolveds"; this time they were in favor of democracy...
Second Division. After the first division between laymen and churchmen over Darwin came a second division between scientists who did not question that evolution was a fact. The Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection declined in scientific favor. This "eclipse of Darwinism" began in the 19th Century, reached into the 20th. The tendency was to doubt that natural selection-the slow combing out and accumulation of small variations-could carry the whole burden of evolution. Many scientists grew so contemptuous of natural selection that they called it pure fiction. Darwin knew nothing of the Mendelian heredity laws, nothing about...