Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will this Administration bill satisfy farmers and legislators who favor the McNary-Haugen bill...
...exalt himself still further, General Gomez has released a photographic poster of himself captioned "El Hombre Sin Vicios" ("The Man Without Vices"). A glance at this shows General Gomez to be unquestionably dashing and sleek, with impeccably upturned "Kaiser" mustachios. He proclaims himself in favor of "complete religious toleration," and is on good terms with many U. S. citizens who have financial interests in Mexico. Thus he should poll a large Roman Catholic vote and knows where to find campaign funds...
...Fuller need not choose between pardoning Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti and permitting their electrocution. He has also the authority to commute their sentences to life imprisonment or to a term of years. In this last case the seven years they have already served would, of course, be counted in their favor. The Governor may also make any discrimination that he desires between the two men?for instance it would be legally possible, though highly unlikely, for him to pardon one of the prisoners and make no intervention on behalf of the other. The only limit on the Governor's authority...
...common sense to recognize that Russia is the economic source of supply for certain markets. An opportunity given to Russia to dispose of some of its surplus in its natural markets will avoid such surplus being forced into competition with American products in markets where transportation costs are in favor of the United States...
...period. "Such restrictions, said Miss Laughlin" have been camouflaged under the name of 'welfare legislation,' but . . . relegate women to jobs so undesirable and poorly paid that men do not want them. President Coolidge told the delegation that when a majority of U. S. women were unmistakably in favor wiping out all legal differentiation between the sexes, they would undoubtedly carry their point. He said, smiling, that men have a habit of giving women what they want...