Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition's best friend is Kansas. In the newspaper poll of the nation just now compiled sentiment everywhere ran overwhelmingly in favor of modification or repeal except in a few southern states and in Kansas. Kansas was dry--incomparably drier than any other state in the Union. The natural query is, what manner of commonwealth is this that, alone among its fellows outside the stolid South, still stands so stubbornly beside its Volsteadian guns...
Correspondent Kent, a red-hot Democrat but none the less a brilliant observer, naturally did not look with much favor upon this change in Mr. Heflin. He suggested a number of possibilities which might account for the change: 1) That Mr. Heflin found himself without an issue and did not know where to go oratorically. 2) That perhaps like his fellow Senator Pat Harrison* he had made some money during the recess. 3) That he may have read press comments on his speeches. 4) That he may have felt "a belated sense of futility." 5) That he believes it impossible...
Swift & Co. filed routine suit against the Government in the Court of Claims. There Government agents astounded them by charging fraudulent conduct. Yet the Court decided in favor of the packers. Government appeal went to the U. S. Supreme Court, and over that Court's decision the five brothers of Swift & Co. were happy last week, for the final decision awarded them not only the more than million dollars differential on War bacon sales in the U. S., but also $212,216 more for a potential loss on bacon sold in France...
...Although I am diametrically opposed to the elective system, and believe that we should allow Freshmen and Sophomores practically no liberty at all in selecting their courses, I am very much in favor of undergraduate expression and criticism in educational matters. The increasingly critical attitude of students toward their teachers and the institutions in which they are studying is most encouraging...
When the numerous princes, dukes, and counts fied the empire at the time of the revolution, there was no rancor between them and the people. It is only natural, therefore, that the sentiments of a large part of the nation today oppose the confiscation of this royal property and favor its restoration...