Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PASSENGERS ON AMERICAN MERCHANT VESSELS LOST THEIR LIVES. IN THE SAME YEAR COMMERCIAL AIRPLANES IN THE U. S. A. CARRIED MORE THAN TWICE AS MANY PASSENGERS-746,946 WITH FATALITIES TO 15 PASSENGERS AND AND 14 CREW AND ONE LOST ON GROUND, AN ADVANTAGE OF 22 TO 1 IN FAVOR OF AIRLINE TRAVEL DESPITE THE FALSE IMPRESSION PEOPLE MAY HAVE GAINED FROM TIME'S PLAYING UP OF AIRLINE MISHAPS...
...following information concerning a local police trap operated in Bay St. Louis, Miss. is of interest to all commercial travellers who have occasion to pass through that State. In publishing this warning you will be doing thousands of travelling men a great favor and help to break up this racket. The following is an exact and truthful resume of what happened to me. For substantiation I enclose the official documents in the case...
...bedfellows last week were the extremely vocal opponents of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. They included: modernist artists, objecting to the arid classicism of the scheme; Republicans and conservatives eager to spike this glorification of the Democratic Party; garden club members, fearing the threat to the cherry trees; utilitarians who favor a memorial to Thomas Jefferson but favor something of public use, specifically an auditorium where such ceremonies as a Presidential inauguration may be held in weather like that of the last...
...take at least a year to reach superior councils, plans are under way at the Law School, where the demand is most urgent, for Union Cooperation to provide temporary dining quarters. Entirely a Law School enterprise this student-managed restaurant would be a second alternative should the University not favor demands to use the Gothic structure. Opportunity for students to earn board by waiting and executive work would overcome a serious shortcoming of the higher educational schools, it was emphasized...
Asked what he would substitute for the two-party system which has led to such corruption here, Mr. Seasongood replied: "I do not disapprove of the two-party system in America, but rather I favor its being conducted as in England where the merit system has a more independent and more solid footing. This situation can be changed only by recognizing it. The matter is not hopeless. The main problem is that the people be gotten out of a defeatist attitude...