Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared himself in favor of a corporation to take care of the farm surplus. The importance of his position lies in the fact that he is leader of the farm bloc in the Senate. The Senate with its loose organization is a much better field of operation for the farm bloc than is the House. Whatever legislation the junior Senator from Kansas espouses is likely not only to have the firm support of the farmer, but to have a good chance of enactment provided the Presidential veto does not intervene. At any rate as leader of the Senate farm bloc...
Excitement ran high, when, with the score standing 26-23 in favor of the University, and only two minutes more of play, Captain Smith caged the sphere once from the floor, and followed up with a perfect goal from fouls...
...league included in its membership besides the names of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, three other colleges, Pennsylvania, Cornell, and Haverford. The old institution was definitely dissolved in favor...
...President sent to Congress a request for an appropriation of $50,000 to enable U.S. representatives to attend a meeting preliminary to a Disarmament Conference to be called by the League of Nations (TIME, Jan. 4). He declared: "The general policy of this Government in favor of disarmament and limitation of armament cannot be emphasized too frequently. In accordance with that policy any measure having a tendency to bring about these results should receive our sympathy and support...
...really havn't got an awful lot to say in favor of the lyrics or the staging or the book of "The Fool for Scandal", but we are heartily in accord with the spirit in which in is given. In any musical comedy, whether amateur or professional, it is important that the actors should realize at the outset that their efforts are not going to revolutionize the drama, but may very likely serve as excellent entertainment for several odd hundred people. To aftain that end all the necessary seriousness of rehearsals and first performances must be dropped when the show...