Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greyhound Corp., or rather one division of it, Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, has made labor news before. The first case heard by the National Labor Relations Board was a complaint that Pennsylvania Greyhound had fired a group of employes for deserting its company union in favor of A. F. of L.'s Street & Electric Railway & Motor Coach Employes. The Labor Board ruled out the company union, ordered the employes reinstated. For a time it looked as if Greyhound would be the key case in the Supreme Court's review of the Wagner Act, but that honor finally went...
...signed in Moscow last week ended this quarrel and made the International Federation of Trade Unions an organization of 23,000,000 Soviet affiliates and 17,000,000 other affiliates-with all that that implies. Big Leon Jouhaux seemed slated to return to Paris with increased kudos and the favor of Dictator Stalin. Said he: "Soviet adhesion is based on the necessity for co-operation among non-fascist workers of all countries In a common struggle against war and Fascism...
...Shift Explained? Once enthusiastically propagated, the idea of a universe whose outer nebulae were rushing away from Earth in all directions has lately lost favor among astronomers. Evidence for the recession of the nebulae is that, when their light is broken up into a spectrum, certain lines are shifted far to the right, or red end of the chromatic scale. Smaller shifts of this sort have been observed in the spectra of comparatively nearby stars known to be moving away from the solar system...
United States news sources are biased in favor of the Leftists according to Hart. Admitting that the Socialist government was elected by a majority, be claimed that subsequent tyranny and oppression precipitated the rebellion. He cited widespread executions by the Madrid government as an immediate cause of rebellion...
While an opportunity for warm water fishing should not be overlooked by any Museum, it should not be taken for granted that man-eating sharks can thus lightly be ignored in favor of lesser finny denizens, or molluscs and foraminifera. The Museum has evidently seen the light, but not enough of it. Man-eaters are inclined to sneer at trawls and nets. Furthermore, they are likely to burst out in new viciousness at being over-long neglected. Various persons will then have to pay tribute with their arms and legs for shark spite...