Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nova Scotia, Premier Edgar Nelson Rhodes posed two liquorish problems: No. 1: Are you in favor of the retention of the Nova Scotia Temperance Act? No. 2: Are you in favor of the sale of liquor† under government control...
Candidate Rubio is pledged to carry out the Party's aggressively radical economic and social programs. He shares the attitude toward Catholicism of General Calles who, while President of Mexico, publicly defied what he called "the grunts of the Pope." Betting odds favor Candidate Rubio so overwhelmingly that, taking a hint from the last U.S. election, he is campaigning with an air of ignoring his opponents, refusing to descend to debate with them...
Moderator McAfee was not exploding a bombshell. Last May the annual General Assembly at St. Paul, Minn, voted to send to some 300 Presbyteries three "overtures" to be voted upon. If the majority vote in the majority of the Presbyteries was in favor, changes suggested by the overtures would become effective in May 1930. Said the overtures: Shall women be ordained as lay evangelists? elders? ministers...
...When we speak of a snob, we mean one who can act as an individual, who can deviate from the footsteps of the crowd, and not care what other people think. I admire Harvard for going its own way without trying to curry favor. It is a highly self-sufficient institution, not trying to follow the crowd. It does things as a gentleman. It does not have individual snobbishness in the ordinary sense of the word. Snobbery is one of the oldest Harvard traditions; a genuine snob will be either reactionary or radical, not conservative or liberal...
...criminals, and before any criminal is sentenced for a felony in which the judge has any discretion as to the sentence, a psychiatrist report must be filed as part of the court record. Until such a report is filed no felon is to be released. Resolutions were passed in favor of a uniform motor vehicles law, a uniform "blue sky" law (controlling sales of securities...