Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smile. Nature, which allowed the cotton farmer 170 lb. for his average acre during the ten years preceding 1933, was about to bestow a bountiful 223 lb. per acre, equal to 151 S's, highest yield in U. S. history. Reasons: Abandonment of less productive acres in favor of cash benefits; scientific seed improvement. Results: The price of cotton had tumbled from about 12? last spring to 10?, cotton farmers' loud cries of "Do something!" were resounding in Southern Congressmen's ears...
...veteran slum-clearing measure came to bat for the third time. Backed by such assorted powers as President Roosevelt, the conservative New York Times and the tory New York Herald Tribune, the bill looked like a sure thing. Sponsor Wagner crowed: "There is practical unanimity throughout the country in favor of the measure. . . . There was practically no opposition to the bill in the hearings before the committee...
...Evening gowns will be an embroiderer's delight, appliqued with sequins, bugles, braid, beads and tinsel. Alix and Molyneux favor very full skirts, elaborately draped-fashion scouts kept harping on the word "Baroque...
...cheer, when all 2,000 delegates waved approval of this lyrical resolution: "Whereas, some of our schools for the deaf, which should lead in the preservation and use of the facile, beautiful, expressive Sign Language of the Deaf have on the contrary attempted to abridge or suppress it in favor of an uncertain awkward method of communication known as 'lipreading' and whereas, the educated deaf bear witness overwhelmingly to the truth that the Sign Language and Manual Alphabet are the most practical, convenient and dependable medium of expression for those bereft of hearing, be it resolved that this...
...these attitudes was expressed several months ago when, talking to a group of Jewish women about Grover Whalen's World's Fair, Fiorello nominated Adolf Hitler for the Fair's chamber of horrors (TIME, Mar. 15). The other attitude is his consistent stand in favor of Labor. Both C.I.O. and A.F. of L. leaders in the city announced themselves for his reelection. The Republican Party may or may not back him, for its leaders have had no favors from him, but the American Labor Party, formed last summer in New York-which succeeded in delivering over...