Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barnes of Smith College faced an excited and sceptical crowd of Debating Union members, swept them off their feet by his speech, and won them over to his side by sheer power of oratory and convincing argument. The final vote of the audience was 81 to 25 in his favor, with 29 not voting...
...Georg Tchitcherin came to a most amiable close last week amid continued, portentous secrecy. As he took ship to sail across the Black Sea to Constantinople, the swarthy dandified Tewfik Rushdi Bey assured newsgatherers that Turkey and the Soviets are now in diplomatic concord, adding darkly: "Turkey does not favor any Western state to the detriment of any Eastern state. . . ." With Tewfik Rushdi Bey gone, M. Tchitcherin, still less communicative, tarried not in Odessa. Bundled up as usual because of his uncertain health, he hurried with his bustling undersecretaries to catch the regular 6:40 p.m. through express to Moscow...
Dedicating a $250,000 memorial at University of Missouri, a bell tolled 117 times last week, once for each dead War student. 25,000 alumni and friends attended. Suzzallo. If not wanted at the University of Washington (TIME, Oct. 18), Dr. Henry Suzzallo, onetime president there, finds favor at Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Manhattan, of which he has been a trustee since 1919. Last week he was elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Coincidentally, Dean David Thomson of the college of Liberal Arts was elected President of University of Washington, at $10,000 a year...
Again, it is not necessary to hold any lengthy brief in his favor, because you are probably already informed of his side of the case, but I should like to lay this before you: that a careful reading of the testimony before the two Senatorial Committees and the various trials that grew out of his election to the Senate, indicated that he had some zealous, but unwise friends, who were mainly responsible for the nasty situations which developed after his election, and that he, in line with his conduct all through life, would not squeal on them in order...
...after the announcement of Secretary Mellon's proposal, the White House Spokesman issued a plea for non-partisan consideration of tax relief, and said that, after consideration, he was inclined to be in favor of the Mellon plan...