Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small, carefully-selected, well-paid body, its members few enough to feel individually responsible, would offer smaller chance for buck-passing and lobbying than the old Senate & House. Too wise last week to be disillusioned so soon, he had reason to be disappointed. Last January he asked only one favor of the new Legislature: that it forward his pet scheme of a nation-wide system of TVAs by voting to link Nebraska's three big hydroelectric systems. A bill to accomplish that object died-in committee, killed by a deal between its friends and foes. That...
...prove or disprove the accusations of treason, sabotage and fomenting world revolution hurled against absent Leon Trotsky during the last mass treason trial in Soviet Russia. Because he felt that the committee of professional liberals from the U. S. heading the trial was unduly influenced in Trotsky's favor, Author Carleton Beals, authority on Central America, resigned in disgust. By last week the committee had proved nothing at all, but to a packed house Professor Dewey was able...
Seventy-four years ago Frederik's beauteous great-aunt Alexandra traveled from Copenhagen to London to marry robustious Edward of Wales, who became King Edward VII, who begat George V, who begat Edward VIII, who abdicated in favor of George VI (Danish Frederik's second cousin), whose Coronation was at once the most splendid and the most pumped-up party that Europe has seen this century. Prince Frederik and his princess were returning from it for another and very different kind of party: the Silver (25th) Jubilee of the reign of the world's tallest monarch. Frederik...
...some 500,000 faltboats. Year and a half ago one Jakob Kissner arrived in the U. S., got a patent on faltboats, began making them under the name Folbot in Long Island City. To date he has sold about 2,000. Last fortnight, recalling that skiing won U. S. favor through snow trains, Jakob Kissner persuaded the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. to try a faltboat train. This week it will run from Manhattan to Falls Village, Conn., where the devotees will unfold their boats for an 18-mi. paddle down the Housatonic through 50 rapids (including...
...touch 40,000,000 oz., twice the 1929 figure. Industrial use of gold in the meantime has dropped from 20% of totalproduction to about 5%. Blamed by the B.I.S. for this decline was "a distitinct change in the jewelry fashions for women in that gold objects are less in favor and are being replaced on the one hand bycheap jewelry, which can be changed often and on the other hand by platinum for more expensive taste...