Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked how he could be sure people living on relief would voluntarily give it up in favor of bona fide employment when some solution for economic difficulties has been found, the Governor said. "It has been my experience with the more than a million people on relief in Pennsylvania, that all but two or three per cent will willingly give up relief if they are offered employment with reasonable prospects of permanency and any sort of decent wages...
That all conservative undergraduate opinion is not necessarily unoriginal or dull seems amply proven by the recently published platform of the "Young Conservatives." Any organization which states: "We favor depriving all persons on relief of the right to vote until they again become self-supporting" is cooking food for thought and discussion. We may not agree with all their fifteen suggestions for better government; but if they can begin a virulent argument with such an organization as the Student Union, may the battle rage with long and sensible fury...
...dear John." Franklin Roosevelt announced that he was in favor of price reductions, opposed to wage reductions (see p. 7). John Lewis addressing his miners went further, opposed both kinds of reductions, fearing that one would lead to the other. Said he: "All we need now in this country to encompass and insure a complete and most devastating economic, social and political debacle is to reduce the prices of commodities and reduce the wage structure. . . . How many years did we try that policy during the Administration of former President Hoover?" At the word "Hoover"' the delegates sent...
...dots (there are 28 Rumanian parties). It was next discovered that the Goga party, having been first to learn of this opportunity, had applied first and had been awarded one black dot just about the size of the Peasant Party circle. Those Rumanians who favor Goga are mostly literate, and illiterates who vote for him by mistake will be so much velvet for the unscrupulous poet...
...arguments, conducted furiously by a total of 66 attorneys. In succeeding weeks, marching in twos and vigilantly guarded, the twelve jurymen and two alternates were occasionally taken out to exercise on the shores of Lake Mendota. For Christmas they had a tree in the juryroom and as a special favor they were allowed to speak to their families. Their mail was carefully censored. They were not allowed to see The Life of Emile Zola because of the courtroom scenes. But in 16 weeks they had gained a total...