Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that its "precipitate granting" smacked of trickery since the corporation well knew that the A. F. of L. union "did not represent the free choice of a majority of its employes." Therefore the Board ordered a plant election. Last week it was held. Result: 780-to-675 in favor...
When a Philippine plebiscite last spring voted in favor of suffrage for women by a 400,000 to 40,000 majority, only one more wrinkle remained before Filipino women became enfranchised. This was the actual framing of a law to allow them to vote. Last week, the wrinkle was ironed out in characteristic Filipino fashion...
...from disapproving of the [Czech-Soviet] treaty I look with favor upon it. . . . Moreover I should like to emphasize our friendship for France which nothing can destroy...
...Oelber on lessons with famed Professional Robert Kleinschroth. Two years later, after he had progressed to the point of beating Tilden-trained Wilbur Coen Jr., he got his father's permission to marry his childhood friend, dark, vivacious Baroness Lisa von Dobeneck, and to abandon his studies in favor of a career in tennis...
...upwards of 20% of U. S. railroad traffic, not for the first 45 years that the Interstate Commerce Commission was in action did it have a Pennsylvania member. In 1933 President Roosevelt remedied this state of affairs and did his political ally. Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, a favor by giving an I. C. C. berth to Senator Guffey's brother-in-law Carroll Miller. Mr. Miller, a lanky six-footer whose lantern jaw, stooped shoulders and pince-nez make him look like a schoolmaster and whose extraordinary drawl and dry wit sometimes make him sound like...