Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Institute of Public Opinion, in a sampling of voters' minds last week, found that three out of four Britons were in favor of continuing the war. One in four either did not know what he wanted or wanted immediate peace. Foreign newsmen estimated that the "peace party" in the House of Commons did not number more than a score of the 615 M.P.s. No attempt was made by the British Government to silence the tongues of would-be peacemakers, and opinions which in other countries in wartime would land a man in jail were freely uttered. But both...
Later, would-be Peacemaker Shaw, asked by London's Daily Worker, Communist organ, whether he favored peace negotiations and an immediate armistice, answered: "I'm in favor of negotiations . . . but a philosopher-or a God-might hold that, as the 1914-1918 war was well worth while because it got rid of the German, Austrian, Turkish and Russian Empires, this one might be worthwhile if it got rid of the British Empire: not a very pleasant process for us. . . . But the sooner the order is given to cease fire and turn up the lights the better...
Tailing the ballot during the early returns, Maguire's nomination was in doubt until the last votes had been counted. Maguire is a strong exponent of Plan E and is in favor of closer cooperation between the University and the city government. "If Cambridge were run from Littauer Center, it couldn't be in worse condition," he once stated...
What kind of concession could Germany make that would save Allied face? Best bet seemed to be a pint-sized "ethnographic" Polish State around Warsaw. Herr Hitler spoke mistily of further central European ethnographic shifts. An "autonomous" Polish State could always be rigged in favor of the Nazis to save them face. But if the Allied negotiator held out for an autonomous CzechoSlovakia, and there was much talk in the House of Commons about that, the negotiations would probably not get very...
Copper. But on the outskirts of the buying rush stand some industries which have already passed the peak mark of sales, are declining. Typical is copper, which the Allies have passed by in favor of purchases from African, Chilean, and Canadian sources; Germany, in favor of Balkan metal. In September copper sales had set an all time record (183,627 tons). Copper sellers sagely guarded against White House strictures on profiteering by stabilizing the price at 12? a pound. They guarded against overproduction by rationing customers. By the beginning of October sales had gone as low as 4,000 tons...