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Word: favorable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Teachers' Union has already gone on record in favor of additional "frozen" associate professorships, a topic which is almost certain to be discussed this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Group Hands Petition To Corporation; Faculty Meets Today to Debate Tenure Policy | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

...ballot, and as there was no way of registering opposition except by crossing out all the names, results were gratifying. In Western Ukraine, 92.83% of the electorate took part, and 90.93% voted for the official panel of 1,484 men, 239 women; in White Russia 96.71%, voted, 90.67% in favor of 804 men, 123 women. One candidate had been in prison for 19 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Freedom of Opinion | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...William Moorhead Vermilye, vice president of Manhattan's National City Bank. The first recipient: Lewis Herold Brown, handsome (see cut) young (45) president of big Johns-Manville Corp. (building materials, etc.). Until the presentation ceremony two weeks hence, the Institute will not reveal its bill of particulars in favor of Mr. Brown. It hardly needs to then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Medalist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Committee's recommendations will undoubtedly favor such policies as those outlined two week, ago to the stockholders of the $3,000,000,000 Electric Bond and Share system by its chairman, C. E. Groesbeck, who in the last two years alone has hooked his system up to Government generators at twelve points, coordinating public generators with private transmission facilities. This would permit operating companies to go on financing new equipment by selling bonds, preferred stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Capacity Wanted | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Believing that the schools should help graduates from the schools to find jobs, Carr said he was in favor of vacation guidance bureau to study the aptitudes of the school children, and recommend courses which would help them find job. The bureau would also serve as a placement office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Athletics for All," Asks Carr In Bid for Election Tomorrow | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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