Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Porto Ricans, alleging that the island is dominated by a political machine and oppressed by taxation, that four-fifths of its 800,000 laborers are without permanent employment, and that drastic remedies are called for. ¶ Governor Len Small of Illinois called to request the President to favor larger appropriations to aid the states in eliminating bovine tuberculosis, although the President is known to be opposed in principle to Federal aid for states. ¶ Senator Arthur R. Robinson, newly appointed Republican Senator from Indiana (succeeding the late Mr. Ralston), called to pay his respects...
Centrist Deputies who listened with earnest attention to Chancellor Luther's coldly logical arguments in favor of the Treaties...
Already the motor companies are feeling that if they don't hang together, they may all hang separately. Conditions favor large consolidations, well-rounded output. Accordingly, Dodge Bros., Inc., have purchased a majority interest...
...Varlet and lord, playwright and swordsman, revel once more in a bold Elizabethan frolic. With wit and a rapier Michael Scarlett, young Earl of Dunbury, fought his way through stirring Elizabethan times. Marlowe, Nash, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, were his cronies. Essex and Southampton were his friends. Elizabeth's favor and her disfavor were his fortune. A fair lady was his love. And death was his portion, and Marlowe...
Playwrights are eternally tickle in their geographic affections. A few years ago India was in high favor as the romantic setting par excellence, more recently it has been Spain, and now we find Leon Gordon, who you will remember wrote "White Cargo" and Sir Patrick Hastings conspiring to popularize the dreadful woes of life in Africa. Sir Patrick has dubbed his "comedy" "The River. The river in question happens to be the Mungana, and is, of course, located somewhere in the bejungled interior of that very dark continent, on one is quite sure where. Hence we have a mystery...