Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overwhelming majority of the Harvard alumni are already in favor of the LaGuardia-Dewey ticket, and following th meeting we expect to crystallize this sentiment into a strong Harvard backing for the entire Fusion ticket...
After his summation of the arguments, current sincethe revocation of the Edict of Nantes and before, in favor, of religious freedom, and the statement that he too favored religious freedom, the Alabama Senator said "I did join the Ku Klux Klan; I later resigned; I never re-joined," and that was all. He did not even hint at what was in his mind when he did join. He did not give the reasons which impelled him to leave the Invisible Empire. He said that he did not know what was on the records of the Klan or what...
Vagabonding is looked on with great favor by University officials, and the deb school looks like an open field for those who desire a snack of knowledge here and there...
...Said he: "Now I carry a medal of the Little Flower with me and pray to her daily, but I am not sure I'd die for a novena to the Little Flower. There is too much Novena-itis, too many spiritual lollypops in presentday religion. I favor novenas, of course, but I do not believe that God is ultimately going to save us by numbers. If I am going to face a firing squad, I will die for something that means more to me than life itself. Hence, we must teach our young people rock-bottom dogmas, which...
...Dean expressed himself as anxious to see the final law school registration figures of this year to see the effect of the new "increased selection" admissions policy, of which he spoke strongly in favor. "The policy is based upon the finding that there is a class correlation between a man's work in college and his work in law school," he asserted. He claimed that those excluded would have had at least a 60 per cent chance of failing, and he hoped that the effect of the policy would be to reduce the number of the failures in the first...