Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both groups favor government-created jobs having additional vocational training as a means to end the pessimism of youth. Such a proposal can be interpreted in two ways. If additional training is to be supplementary to the present amount of cultural education, it will serve a useful purpose. Although ideally unlimited opportunities for advanced education are desirable, practically, because of the continued prevalence of low incomes, this is impossible for a large percentage of the population. Thus any increase in the sum total of all education, provided the present standards of culture are kept as a minimum, is extremely valuable...
...Olum as chairman been acquainted with events leading up to the rally, he would have been aware that Mr. Pitts wished to speak in favor of the John Reed Society's stand against the University. Mr. Pitts in a Crimson letter expressed his complete sympathy with the Browder protest...
...Socialist Jasper McLevy stayed in as mayor of Bridgeport, Conn. Socialist John Henry Stump went out as mayor of Reading, Pa. Boss Edward Crump was elected mayor of Memphis-only to keep his machine in power, since he is to reign for five minutes Jan. 1 before resigning in favor of the vice mayor, who would in turn surrender the job to a Crump henchman. But everybody knew that the Big Wind had blown over California, where Ham & Eggs was defeated...
...cross section of University of Chicago students, participating in a campus magazine poll, yesterday voted in favor of the return of the Maroons to big-time football, but not at too much expense to the institution's scholastic standards...
Meanwhile, in the U. S. S. R. Bolshevists staged a bang-up three-day celebration of the 22nd anniversary of the Communist revolution. The Communist Third International blasted forth with a strident manifesto which called upon workers of the world to unite and "go against those who favor continuation of imperialistic war." Nothing wrong was found with Nazi Germany, but the manifesto singled out for special tongue-lashings the U. S., which "repeals the embargo on the export of arms to secure huge profits to the kings of the munitions industry"; Britain and France, for "keeping half the world...