Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of the ballots which have been sent out is to ascertain first whether student bodies favor present prohibition laws, modification or repeal, and second why individual students vote as they do. Only by collecting the reasons underlying votes can figures be interpreted when it comes to drawing up a report for the Federation. With this in view the Committee has, in sending out its ballots, asked four questions as follows...
First--Do you favor prohibition in its present form...
Speaker Longworth could have ruled in favor of Congressman Barbour. He refused to do so, although he admitted that precedent dictated that he should. Instead, he asked the House to vote on it, with the result which he well foresaw...
Before the Rules Committee are measures embodying the Vice Presidential idea of cloture (limitation of debate) by majority vote. Scarcely a handful of Senators favor these proposals. Hence the Rules Committee would certainly turn them down. Hence, in order not to offend the Vice President, the Rules Committee has not met ? not once during the entire session...
...great object of Christianity in international affairs was to establish friendly relations, not only with other Christian nations, but with the anti-Christian nations, that they might, be brought in touch with the teachings of Christianity and thereby be induced to accept its benign precepts. . . . Are you in favor of employing an army and navy to effectuate righteousness and justice? The only alternative to that is to establish the best possible treaty relations and friendly intercourse, and thus, exert such moral influence and such moral leadership...