Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to feel that he was not the ideal person to insure the Duke of Windsor the kind of reception he got when he visited the U. S. as Prince of Wales in 1924. He announced that he had telephoned the Duke of Windsor to offer to resign in favor of a less unpopular guide. The Duke's reply was "Charles, pay no attention to these low accusations. Go right ahead." Trying to obey, Efficiency Expert Bedaux encountered more obstacles. Said he the next afternoon: "Up to 1 o'clock I was very gay. Since then something...
...Rich Catalan farmers, who experienced the recent Anarchist-Communist disorders, appear to favor the Rebel side as much as they do the present regime in Barcelona and it was indicated that the Negrin Government might assume a more conservative policy in order to win over these farmers and business men." The Negrin Government, not yet settled in their new offices in Barcelona, announced simultaneously that death would be the penalty for any Catalan trying to escape into France...
...country school at Harrisburg. Ark.: "Five months of school a year is all I'm in favor of, because I need my children at home to help work the farm...
With Cleveland as chairman, the Congress gets under way with a strong speech in favor of the Bill to be followed by one in opposition...
...discharged or shifted to new posts (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante), is playing into the hands of the Church. In many districts the Communist boss who has just been shifted into a region where he is a total stranger has been fairly stumped to know whom the Party should favor as a candidate. Izvestia recently described district Communist organizers "perusing for two hours the list of 37 presidents of village Soviets of their district but absolutely unable to appraise the political standing of these presidents- they are all unknown to them." In these circumstances, according to the Soviet press...