Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jenkins: "You'd be doing the committee and the country a great favor...
...that Japan has her hands full in China France, concerned for the safety of Indo-China, is evidently changing her original policy of trying to protect her eastern empire by currying favor with the Japanese. Consequently, in frequent brushes in Japanese-occupied Peking and Shanghai, the French have stood up to the Japanese much more firmly than the representatives of the U. S. and Britain. Fortnight ago the French again pulled Japan's nose. Last February an agreement was reached tending to facilitate payment of French commercial credits owed by Japan. Recently French creditors informed the French Foreign Office...
...three biggest political jobs to be filled at once. Because Governor Lehman was drafted against his will to strengthen the New Deal ticket in 1936 and then did not prove as big a vote-getter as the President, the assumption was that he would step aside in favor of another gubernatorial candidate, possibly popular Bob Wagner. While Franklin Roosevelt's lieutenants pondered what would be the best political line-up to meet this unexpected situation in a key State, a snag arose. Executive Secretary Alex Rose of New York's young American Labor Party, which cast almost...
Well aware that this about-face would strew some wigs on the green, The Commonweal's editors assured their readers that they did not favor the Loyalist cause, which, they said, has ''permitted the murder of priests, nuns and lay people" and has allied itself with Soviet Russia. But they denounced Spanish Rightists for: 1) bombing defenseless civilians in spite of "protests from the Holy Father," 2) uttering "totalitarian views very similar to those which have been condemned by the Church in other countries," 3) allying themselves with the Fascist and Nazi nations. The Commonweal urged Catholics...
...Favor of F. D. R. in general are: 1) Factory Labor (78.7%), Farm Labor (77.6%), "Other Labor" (75.4%) who like him on every point; 2) the Unemployed (69.8%) who dislike only his re-organization bill; 3) Farmers (61.1%) who like everything except his reorganization bill and his methods; 4) Housekeepers (63.7%) who like his nine popular points; 5) White Collar Workers (59.4%) and Proprietors (56.2%) who like seven...