Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...split into at least three factions and Leader Dooling, ill abed and acting by proxy, was in danger of being unable to name his own candidate for mayor even in his own borough. By compromising with one faction he was able to beat the third which was in favor of bending the knee to the New Deal and the leaders of the other boroughs and accepting their ticket. Then, three days later Leader Dooling died. So, in the Democratic primary in September, bereaved Tammany, with its own ranks split, will try to nominate a candidate for mayor opposed...
...knew he was a conservative at heart, and seasoned Senators to whom Pat Harrison is a grand old guy. Being as loyal as Joe Robinson, Pat Harrison has stood by the President, even unto the Supreme Court Bill, but not with vociferous enthusiasm. Thus both contenders were in favor of the Court Bill, and to ask the President to accept Pat Harrison was not to ask him to take an enemy as his lieutenant. Therefore Pat Harrison's friends had burned with indignation when the President's "message to A'ben" (see p. n) emphasized Alben Barkley...
...group of musicians decided to enlarge the Mozart festivals to include other composers. Eight years later the old Winter Riding School was converted into a Festspielhaus, to seat 1,400. Salzburg's growing musical reputation blossomed powerfully in 1934 when Conductor Arturo Toscanini snubbed Nazi Bayreuth in favor of Salzburg. Thenceforth the Salzburg Festivals became the place for thousands of U. S. and European tourists to go, the playground for international socialites, the highest appointment singers & players could hope for. By last week the scurry and noise of thousands arriving, unpacking, celebrating, made the baroque little city look...
...performances scheduled Toscanini would direct twelve, two more than Conductor Bruno Walter. To Walter was allotted Mozart's Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro, Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, Weber's Euryanthe. Conductor Hans Knapperts-busch, new to Salzburg, had the cards stacked in his favor. Rosa Pauly was to sing the title role in his production of Strauss's Elektra and nobody alive is better qualified. For the Marschallin in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, he was to have Soprano Lotte Lehmann...
...efforts. The crackup of Germany and her Turkish ally, with General Allenby capturing Jerusalem as a sort of 20th Century Crusader in December 1917, was the decisive moment, because five weeks earlier British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour had made his historic Declaration: "His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of that object, it being understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine...