Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because of these considerations, Mr. District Attorney, that I feel that the exercise of a sound discretion must turn in favor of the admission of prisoner to bail and I accordingly grant his application...
...delegates represented some 25,000 members of A. F. of T., who in turn accounted for a little more than 2% of the country's over 1,000,000 teachers. The California, Pennsylvania and New York delegations were instructed in favor of the C. I. O. and the Chicago group against it, but delegates from other sections did not seem to know what their constituencies wanted, let alone the rank & file of U. S. teachers. Agitation for a referendum appeared, and a motion was made that the executive council conduct a referendum on C. I. O. affiliation "no sooner...
According to the complaint presented by Lawyer Morton, Herbert Fleishhacker in 1919 agreed to let the Anglo Bank lend M. Barde & Sons, Inc. of Seattle and Portland funds to buy steel from the U. S. Shipping Board, in return for which favor he was personally to get half the profits from the sale of the steel. Brothers J. N. and Leonard B. Barde presently received $325,000 from the Anglo Bank, another $175,000 from the Central National Bank of Oakland. The Bardes were successful in their bid for the steel, formed Barde Steel Products Corp. and before long repaid...
...When Walker should have executed French, he executed instead an innocent hostage. Native support almost completely vanished when he followed this up by shooting a popular enemy leader. But a worse mistake, even worse than sending French to Washington as Nicaraguan minister, was to revoke the Vanderbilt concession in favor of that hard-fisted financier's double-crossing colleagues, to whom Vanderbilt wrote: "I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you." After Vanderbilt had made good his promise. Walker still pig-headedly refused to talk business, thereby cutting...
Wightman Cup, The only thing that could be said in favor of a weak British team's chances against a strong U. S. team was that none of this year's British players was married and they would therefore, presumably, have no worries about absent husbands. True, two of the U. S. tennists- Alice Marble and Carolin Babcock-had sore backs and Helen Jacobs, in the year since she lost the U. S. singles championship to Alice Marble, had dislocated her thumb, torn a shoulder ligament and banged her knee with a racket. But pretty Kay Stammers...