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Word: favorableness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular conference with reporters the President made it known that he did not favor Federal censorship of motion pictures* but thought that the states should do whatever is necessary of that kind. He indicated that he favors the Mills bill, which would provide returning German property in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian to its owners and paying American claims against Germany out of the proceeds of a U. S. bond issue, which would be retired out of the U. S. receipts under the Dawes Plan from Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: May 3, 1926 | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...Wheeler summed up for the Drys as did Colonel Julian Codman for the Wets, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews in charge of prohibition wound up with a final appearance (his fourth) and denied that he was in favor of modifying the prohibition law except to put more teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Hearings End | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...walks with a sodden heavy stride, his hands held dangling before his chest like the paws of a performing bear. But when he rises in public debate or sits down to a private tete-a-tete, he reveals the brilliance and supreme persuasive power which have often made Conservatives favor him for the post of Premier. As everyone knows, he is Secretary of State for India, a personage. Therefore a sensation was created last week by widely bruited reports that he would receive £7,000,000 (nearly $35,000,000) when the will of Sir Robert Houston, the late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: On Whom the Jest? | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

Second--Do you favor the repeal of laws relating to prohibition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEDERATION WILL HOLD NATION-WIDE PROHIBITION POLL | 4/27/1926 | See Source »

Third--Do you favor the change of prohibition laws to allow the sale of light wines and beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEDERATION WILL HOLD NATION-WIDE PROHIBITION POLL | 4/27/1926 | See Source »

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