Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lustily about the method used to value their properties for rate-making purposes. Instead of reproduction cost the New Deal would like to have valuations based on what the properties would have cost under a policy of ''prudent investment." For obvious reasons the utilities as a rule favor the former, upheld in a series of Supreme Court decisions since 1898. For reasons equally obvious the New Deal has been trying to get the utilities, either through persuasion or compulsion, to accept the theory of "prudent investment...
This week Chiang, while remaining Generalissimo, resigned as Premier in favor of his brother-in-law Dr. H. H. Kung, only recently returned from a European shopping tour for war supplies (TIME, Aug. 30). Premier Kung, a descendant of China's greatest sage Confucius (whose memorial tablet on the Classical Mountain Taishan was threatened by Japanese last week) is a Chinese conservative. However, his first act as Premier was to order freed from Chinese jails virtually all prisoners, and the majority of these happened to be Communists. Dispatches reported Chinese Communist leaders pressing Premier Kung and Generalissimo Chiang...
...least France, Britain, the U. S. and other democracies-has been in the air. It was suggested at the Harvard Tercentenary celebration by Professor Etienne Gilson of France. A group of newspaper reporters at Cambridge, sensing a good story, promoted an unofficial symposium of celebrities who declared themselves in favor of the plan. Official encouragement came from Britain. Newspaper editorials on the subject were reprinted in science journals. Last week at Indianapolis the A. A. A. S. council officially approved the plan for some of the world's most learned men to form an international body of thinkers...
...aware that at the same time she is taking 21? out of the pockets of U.S. silk hosiery workers. U. S. cotton farmers and non-silk hosiery workers profit to a similar extent. Fearful of such dislocations, both A. F. of L. and C. 1.0. announced that they favor boycotting goods of Japanese manufacture...
...work-which did not come to an end until 1852-occupies half of Mother Callan's book. It is full of homely detail: the French nuns' first encounter with corn bread; Mother Duchesne's purchase of a slave, Rachel, from her bishop "as a favor" when he left for France, later reselling her to help pay for a dormitory...