Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prime Minister Radoslavoff, always pro-German, who took Bulgaria into the War on the German side when most Bulgarians were in favor of neutrality. It was Prime Minister Radoslavoff, occasionally farsighted, who refused (he now says) to declare war on the U. S. against the earnest entreaties of temperamental General von Ludendorff...
...making residence in Germany of the onetime ruler dependent on the will of the Reichstag. Since the bill involves a change in the German Constitution, a two-thirds majority is always necessary to renew it. Bickering between Communists and Nationalists last week brought a final vote of 268 in favor of the law to 166 against, enought to defeat it. The Reichstag is almost sure to pass the law when it reassembles a fortnight hence. At Doorn a gentleman characterized by U. S. correspondents as "the ex-Kaiser's court marshal" said that there was no likelihood that Wilhelm...
Mother Mary Magdalene's sainthood-candidacy is supported by the Very Rev. Albert Kleber of St. Meinrad's, Ind. Chosen as "devil's advocate," whose duty it is to find flaws in all arguments in her favor, was the Rev. Peter C. Gannon, editor of The True Voice, Catholic weekly...
Nowhere could Senator Glass find that President Hoover was pledged never to try to alter the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act: "In the campaign the most he ever said was that he did 'not favor the repeal of the 18th Amendment' but he nowhere has said that he might not advocate modification...
...Washington to sit in the House of Representatives. Last week he did find himself in Washington, sitting not at the Capitol in a mere Representative's seat but up in the Hoover sub-Cabinet. Helping hands at the White House had straightened out a bad political mess in his favor...