Word: favored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...procedure would apply. This meant that any session could be made secret by a two thirds vote of its members. Curiously enough, this ruling seemed to meet with the approval of most Latins. Since sagacious Mr. Hughes had called their outstanding bluff, they were as anxious as he to favor a procedure which would prevent, for example, loud squabbles between those embittered rivals Chile and Peru...
...much in favor of college dramatics. They are very formative. Unfortunately, acting was taboo when I went to Leland Stanford, and so I missed the opportunity that you fellows have...
...there was a tax bill before the Senate. It developed that the Democratic and farmers' friend strategy was to get the Senate on record generally in favor of some sort of tariff reduction, and then to hitch tariff riders to the tax bill. The riders were to lower the tariff on aluminum and steel, to raise it on farm products such as corn and perhaps mollasses (corn's competitor as a source of industrial alcohol...
...young Paderewski had little in his favor. There was no musical background. His mother died when he was three. His father, a Polish farmer, was banished to Siberia for his mutterings against Russian rule. The boy wanted to be a pianist but he had small, stubby hands that would not reach an octave. His first teacher was a violinist with scant knowledge of the keyboard...
...Salvation Army should invest in tax-exempt real estate here in Massachusetts $1,000,000 given it for the relief of the poor. For that matter, she believes that many so-called benevolent and charitable institutions, thriving on tax-exemption, do more harm than good. Mrs. MacFadden argues in favor of a head tax of $4, which would yield Massachusetts more that its income tax and be far simpler to collect. She does not see why women should now be exempt from the poll tax. "The Next Question" is a stimulating and provocative book. It deserves the widest reading, even...