Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irregular Republicans favor retaining the estate tax. Secretary Mellon and the Regulars want it repealed. The Irregulars dislike the automobile and admission taxes, which the Regulars oppose repealing. The Irregulars view askance reductions of taxes on corporate incomes and on individual incomes in the "intermediate...
...Chauncey Depew from its inception. He stumped for its first candidate, John C. Fremont, in 1856, and attended every Republican convention from 1860 to 1920. All the Presidents from Lincoln to Harding knew him well. In 1888, he himself received 99 votes for the nomination, but withdrew in favor of Harrison, who later asked him to be Secretary of State. He declined, having the presidency of the New York Central R. R. to attend to. In 1899 he entered the Senate, but his two terms were chiefly sociable. Politics, with him, was a sideline. Business came first, then speechmaking, then...
Last week, Secretary MacDonald wrote another letter, this time to Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, rebuking him for declaring in favor of John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut for Vice President. Secretary MacDonald gave the impression that Governor Fuller wanted to be Vice President...
...Caldwell had been criticized for accepting a compensation fee of $7,000 per annum from his former employers, the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., for whom he edited Radio Retailing, to eke out his $10,000 salary on the commission. Also, Southerners and Westerners charged that he had discriminated in favor of the Radio Corp. of America, which operates stations flung from Worcester, Mass. to Los Angeles. The fight over Mr. Caldwell's reappointment was sharp but he squeaked through by one vote...
Over all these flighty, inconsequential doings Excommunicator Cardinal Dubois brooded with troubled dignity last week. He is a prelate in high favor with the rich Anglo-U. S. Catholics of Paris, and he won the general gratitude of Frenchmen during the War by tireless organizing of efficient charities. As a matter of personal taste and sympathy Cardinal Dubois is known to have a penchant for the Royalists, among whom he has numerous close friends. As Cardinal and Archbishop, however, his duty was clear, last week, and he obeyed the Pope's orders to excommunicate with promptness and despatch...