Word: favored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although one match remains to be played in the Sophomore-Freshman round of the interclass squash tournament the results of the matches now played show that the score stands 4 to 2 in favor of the Sophomores and that the outcome of the remaining encounter will not affect their status as winners. The summary of the matches so far played is as follows: Daniel Merriman '31 defeated E. M. Warburg '30, 2-1. R. P. Honigsberg '30 defeated R. R. Stebbins '31, 2-0; R. B. Gierasch '30 defeated G. T. Emmett '31, 2-0. E. W. Olney '30 defeated...
...favor the repeal of the Volstead Act, nor do I favor repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. I believe the Eighteenth Amendment is here to stay and that citizens and officials would better put in their time considering how they may observe the laws of their country and respect its Constitution rather than to give their efforts to plans whereby the law may be evaded and the Constitution broken down...
...Senate's Sense. It had no legal value. Its moral value was washed out by partisan undercurrents. Its application was so indefinite that Senator Reed of Pennsylvania was moved to say: "You might as well pass a resolution in favor of the Ten Commandments." But the Senate, after three days of wrangling, twitting, theorizing and horseplaying, passed it anyway, 56 to 26-a resolution by boyish Senator LaFollette "that it is the sense of the Senate that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents of the United States in retiring from the Presidential office after their second term...
...quite true that other seaside resorts would like to follow San Remo's example, but their wishes will not be fulfilled. . . . For very strong reasons of a political and economic nature a special exception was made in favor of San Remo, but the exception in this case also serves but to prove the rule...
...rest of the $500,000,000 in French bonds owned in the U. S. are non-callable-a grievous slip on the part of the French financiers who negotiated the sale of their bonds. They did not foresee their good fortune in U. S. public favor...