Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Stevens, who was once sprung from the District of Columbia jail by Dudley Field Malone* after suffrage-picketing of the White House, holds that women are created free and equal with men, scorns all protective legislation for women. To the opposite female faction-who favor not equal rights but special rights for women-it was unthinkable that Miss Stevens should occupy so exalted a post. Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, "Molly" Dewson, and many another New Dealer belong to the opposition. Yet for ten years Miss Stevens kept her seat in spite of all the bonfires they could build under...
Final tabulations showed that Harvard students stand nearly four to one behind the recent Neutrality legislation, favor by a very narrow margin an immediate peace conference, but are opposed by a somewhat wider margin (236 votes) to American participation in such a conference...
...emerge with some dubious interpretations. It is necessary to attribute to Mr. Greene the most blatant sort of insincerity. At the very least, it requires imputing to him a certain amount of unconscious hypocrisy--an over-readiness to squirm out of a previous decision in Mr. Browder's favor. Only by reading between the lines can the bogey of suppression be conjured...
Furthermore, the most important questions of the poll are not vulnerable to the charge of partiality. Whether students favor our entrance into the war now or if England and France are losing, whether they favor an immediate peace conference, prohibition of loans and credits to belligerents, and denial of protection to U. S. citizens on belligerent ships are all things worth knowing. The poll therefore has a positive value which the Crimson completely neglects. Executive Committee, Harvard Student Union...
Starting with a question concerning what conditions "you would favor the United States entering the war on," the poll proceeds to ask about our position in a peace conference. It then goes on to more immediate issues of policy...