Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with class affairs than anyone else living in the Yard. At that time he is thrown into the discard because of an election of a class president, a position that today is both meaningless and unsound. It seems absurd to cast out an executive trained for the position in favor of a person "democratically" chosen in an election in which more than half the voters do not know for whom they are voting...
Further the black cotton stockings may also be discarded in favor of lighter shades such as gun-metal and the like. However the belief of one House waitress that she might be required to wear a white uniform for the evening meal, was groundless, according to the Manager's office, for no such drastic change is contemplated. The reason for the abandonment of the head bands is simply to save an additional laundry item for the employees, according to Westcott...
...again on the short end of the stick in September. The latter does no business at all, while the student buys his books second-hand from the Coop for a fraction less than their original price, provided the Coop does not decide to suppress their used copies in favor of new ones. Thus, the unfortunate undergraduate finds his pennies dwindling away while he manages to salvage but a few from his dividend...
...raging on Beacon Hill, where hardly a single candidate can be found who combines honesty with great ability, the current mayoralty campaign in New York City sees for the first time in a generation the forces of corruption arrayed in a clean-cut warfare with those who are in favor of honest municipal government. The incumbers mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, backed by the Republican, Fusion, and American Labor parties in the city, has managed the affairs of the nation's greatest city with such honesty and vision in the last four years that, although he rode into office on the wave...
...ticket wide open and led to a Fusion victory. But to add insult to injury only last fall an enlightened electorate voted to adopt an entirely new charter, the final fruit of Judge Seabury's investigations, doing away with the great Tammany stronghold, the Board of Aldermen, in favor of a City Council, and setting up a system of proportional representation, so that no one party could in future gain complete domination of the Citys finances and control...