Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which is his own creation, only? Is he of the George Washington type, as counsel would have you believe ? Is he not rather of the all too familiar charlatan and demagog type?like Alcibiades, Catiline, and except for a decided difference in poise and mental powers in Burr's favor, like Aaron Burr? He is a good flyer, a fair rider, a good shot, flamboyant, self-advertising, wildly imaginative, destructive, never constructive except in wild non-feasible schemes, and never overly careful as to the ethics of his methods...
Agriculture. Secretary Jardine declared in favor of revising freight rates on agricultural products; for encouragement of co-operative farming; for an improved system utilizing unappropriated public lands. He declared that gross farm income for 1924-1925 was $12,400,000,000 greater (7% greater) than last year; that the farm population has decreased 182,000 (.6%), to 31,134,000; that only 29 out of 1,000 farmers are rich enough to pay income taxes; that 553,000 farmers own radio sets; that the average family income on the farm is $1,504, of which $634 is furnished in food...
...long as she is willing to throw herself into character as vigorously as she has done in her last four pictures. We were thinking especially of "Sinners in Heaven", but it might be better not to think of that one, considering the prejudice that naturally arises in favor of swimming pool business in the South Sea Islands...
...nation-wide poll on the World Court, conducted by the New Student, intercollegiate student magazine, with cooperation of the World Court Committee of the Council of Christian Organizations, were announced last Sunday at the close of the National Collegiate World Court Conference at Princeton, showing a heavy majority in favor of the World Court with moderate reservations...
...addition vote which was cast simply "for" or "against" resulted in 33,687 for the Court and 6,582 opposed. Hence the final results show the overwhelming majority of 93,799 in favor of the Court in terms probably acceptable to the Administration against 7,884 votes for the "Borah Plan," and 18,940 against the Court absolutely...