Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night watchmen defend the rule merely because it is "orders," as one expressed it, and they will often "make exceptions" in favor of students who are caught, thus making themselves the victims of the 8 o'clock rule, although one insists that "It was an Eliot House man called me a dirty name once and I swore I'd never let anybody out again...
...economy advocates, led by Sen. Alva B. Adams, D., Colo., had hoped to delay the vote until their numbers are bolstered by several absentees who favor the House-approved $725,000,000 relief bill and would give them the margin for victory...
...majority of importers from bringing U. S. products into Argentina since the first of the year. Behind this prohibition many observers detected the heavy hand of John Bull. Because she buys from Argentina far more than she sells to her, Britain has always been high in Argentina's favor. The U. S. (except when the 1935-37 drought necessitated unusual imports of Argentine grain) ordinarily buys less from Argentina than she sells her, does not enjoy Argentina's favor. Long a sore point with Argentina is the prohibition against the import of fresh Argentine meat...
...return trip Boatswain Rolf Barrman, armed with a gun and a bottle, terrorized the crew for three drunken days. The Countess asked Captain Hoffmann as a favor to her to shoot one Ben ("Bugsy") Siegal, who she feared had evil intentions. When a seaman named Bonelli misbehaved, Hoffmann shackled him to the anchor chain. Last straw: a gale blew away most of the rigging. An Italian motorship towed them to port...
...Spanish war, the Pope followed the advice of his Spanish bishops. But a majority of U. S. Catholics, according to a recent Gallup poll, do not see eye to eye with the Holy Father and the Spanish hierarchy. The Gallup figures: 58% of Catholics who take sides favor Franco, about 33% of all Catholics sympathize with neither side; thus, Franco partisans number only some 38% of U. S. Catholics, and in the general population they are even fewer...