Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clubmen and Editors. Votes or questionnaires sent to members of the Directory of Directors in New York City, the Cleveland Rotary Club, Rochester Kiwanis and Kansas City Clubs, in all except the last, showed a majority in favor of repeal or modification of Prohibition. Similar votes among laboring men in Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Chicago, Missouri, Pennsylvania, showed only an inconsiderable minority for the continuance of Prohibition. Votes by editors of newspapers showed a considerable majority in favor of Prohibition...
...Acting Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis was in favor of another separate investigation into Colonel Mitchell's charges against the War and Navy Departments, holding that those departments had no right to investigate themselves. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur was inclined to feel that such an investigation was unnecessary, but after a conference with Mr. Davis and Secretary Hoover, he joined Mr. Davis in recommending such an investigation by outsiders. President Coolidge promptly acted on the suggestion. He named a board of nine: Major General James G. Harbord, retired, President of the Radio Corporation of America; Admiral Frank...
...seems to me that more cleverness, more brains, go into the composition of a single issue of TIME than any other journal I know. It's so bright, for one thing, that I have definitely decided to cancel my subscription to "our leading humorous, satirical weekly" in its favor, coming to this decision upon reading your delectable excerpts from Harold Bell Wright's latest classic...
...replied: 'No widespread trouble will take place, but there are bound to be labor troubles from time to time for many years to come. But please understand that practically all the Parliamentary Labor party, including myself, are in favor of obtaining the social economic and industrial reforms by constitutional methods...
...Arthur Comte de Gobineau, (1816-62), was or was not a touring precursor of Nietzsche, which great Nordic, together with Composer Wagner, "discovered" Gobineau and made for him in Germany a reputation which he did not live to enjoy in his native France. These conflicts having somewhat subsided, in favor of Gobineau, there is space for attention to his neglected fiction. A fierce individualism dominates. Characters are wild, exotic types, not invented but recreated out of deep understanding and sympathy for people Gobineau came to know in his wide travels as a diplomat. The Dancing Girl of Shamahka involves...