Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the anti-Hicks faction has been "dissolved," they have come out in favor of his appointment, and in doing so revealed an apparent lack of foundation for the story carried by the American and Daily Record yesterday concerning the "storm of student protest" the appointment had aroused. At 12:30 o'clock there were "no" signatures; and later in the afternoon an American reporter was seen trying to collect signatures for a petition on Hicks, a facsimile of which had appeared earlier in the American...
...concerned go after the favor of the ultra-critical college and university dancers, for they ever great influence over what those both in and out of college will accept as good music...
Today's program is nicely balanced, with Paul Muni's admirable interpretation of "The Story of Louis Pastcur" offset by Claudett Colbert and Melvyn Douglas in "She Married Her Boss." Tomorrow, however, they are abandoning the old name of "review day" in favor of "Romance Day," bringing to the screen Stokowski in "100 Men and a Girl" and Garbo in "Anna Karenina." This idylic couple, last heard from on the Isle of Capri, got widely diverging reactions from the local public. The big Swede left Harvard hearts cold, but the stoical Stokowski received such an overwhelming Radcliffe vote that...
...frowning crags in the Austrian Tyrol with shiny-nosed Leni Riefenstahl and world-famed Skimeister Hannes Schneider in the lead. Last week "non-Aryan" Skimeister Schneider was under Nazi lock & key in his native Austria. Fräulein Riefenstahl, last spring supposed to have been replaced in Hitler favor by Cinemactress Pola Negri (TIME, June 21), was meanwhile considered reestablished in her Fü:hrer's platonic affections...
After hearing three lessons, lasting less than 15 minutes, on the advantages of conservation, students swung sharply in favor of Government control of farming. After a five-minute paper on murder, a group swung in favor of capital punishment. After reading a speech by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins advocating social insurance, the students favored it much more strongly than before...