Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Which is the more binding upon Congress ? the House-made rules of the House of Representatives or an ambiguous clause in the Constitution of the U.S.? Last week the House, encouraged by Speaker Nicholas Longworth, voted in favor of its rules, 265-87. As always, the House voted in accordance with its political interests, the only unusual feature of this vote being that the political interests of the majority of both parties were identical...
...furiously, not so much to prevent defeat of the measure, since that is deemed highly improbable, but to head off the Democrats from getting through a vote referring it back to the reporting committee for expert investigation. This proposal was the more feared because numerous gentlemen in both camps favor a long delay, to carry them past the November elections without the necessity of voting on the settlement, which is loaded with dynamite in some constituencies...
...Peoria, Ill., the people who favor prohibition know William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson. Some have seen their hero in times past. Many have seen his pictures, know well his single eye. So when it was advertised that William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson would speak in person, not by radio?hundreds tumbled out into the inclement, spring, into a bandbox auditorium. Listening to the one-eyed one, their hearts warmed, their ideals revived, their purses opened...
...adversary tries to go as near as he can to the line of publicity for the sake of popular morality, a question of ethics both interesting and perplexing confronts, the few thinking beings who care to enjoy their prerogative. In the present instance the judge who decided in favor of the lesser evil was undoubtedly acting both sanely and with a judicial preciseness. Better a Tartuffe dead and a harlequin living, than more moss covered morals and a reign of petty terror. Yet it is rather unfortunate that the issue could not have been more clear cut and satisfying. Wowseries...
...enrollment, a desire, which, as is now rather well known, those who drafted the Harvard report possess. Furthermore, he suggests that the college must be near a large city or university whose laboratories and libraries it can use. The idea of dividing Harvard into small colleges has in its favor this very fact: that the university does possess adequate facilities for the work of each particular college, so that the small college has the advantage both of its own size and the size of its parent university...