Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Ambassador to China Sir Hughe Montgomery ("Snatch") Knatchbull-Hugessen (TIME, Sept. 6), the British Government did not ask any money. This was "manifestly unfair" to good old "Snatch," his many ruling class friends have been influentially murmuring in London ever since, but an old imperial precedent is in favor of the foreign nation which is to blame always paying the indemnity. For example the assassination in Egypt of Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack cost Egyptians exactly $2,300,000 (TIME. Dec. 1, 1924). In the painful dilemma of 1937, Britain's Cabinet last week announced that the House...
...Midwestern game, the rival coach discovers Pendleton had played football professionally, has him declared ineligible. Chief Indian-baiter Bob Hayner (Dick Baldwin) is suspected of informing on the star, but plays heads-up football, clears himself of suspicion after the Ritzes clinch the victory, and regains the favor of the coach's daughter (Gloria Stuart...
David, "Kentucky" Mitchell '41 set what is believed to be an all-time record at the Union when he devoured 18 successive ice creams, 12 strawberries and six vanillas, after a full course evening meal. Although Union officials revealed that they would look with ill favor on any more record tries in the eating line, it was revealed that Miss Murray, Union commandant, had allowed Mitchell his attempt...
...early this year they had a strong comeback until the speculative collapse in commodities in England coupled with President Roosevelt's statement that certain U. S. commodity prices were rising too fast. Now commodity prices are nearing the 1926 level. Four years ago President Roosevelt was said to favor maintaining the 1924-25 level by varying the gold content of the dollar. So the New Deal is now at the crossroads where it may soon, have to abandon its determination to hold commodity prices down, or to give up all its other inflationary policies...
Ridden by heavy taxes and a feudal system of landlordism, pinched by the British corn laws (which put a high tariff on imported grain, in favor of England's home-grown wheat), the Irish had been reduced to practical subsistence on the potato, and when that crop failed whole counties were left literally foodless. Governmental remedial machinery was slow, graft-ridden, stupidly conceived. While the famine lasted. 21,770 people died of starvation, the total Irish mortality for the five years that ended in 1851 was close upon a million. The two most important results were: a desperate stiffening...