Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after his message last week Franklin Roosevelt said that he had received several hundred telegrams split up 7-to-1 in favor of his plan. That Congress, which will have to supply Round No. 1 (Relief) and Round No. 3 (PWA), was by no means sympathetic became apparent at once. Opposition wires soon started to flood the capital and the telegraph companies were expecting to be the first beneficiaries of the recovery program...
Conducting a survey of Yale's athletic coaches, the Yale "News" has found that 96 per cent. of the Eli mentors are in favor of definite contracts with the Yale Athletic Association, covering at least three years, in place of the present system of "gentlemen's agreements...
...Bradford's group got a larger number to petition the Board of Education for a course in hog-calling. One day, to the astonishment of Kenosha's labor leaders, the Legionnaires quoted A. F. of L.'s William Green in favor of R. O. T. C. Labormen immediately made wires to Washington hum. Next day William Green reversed himself...
...scientific aspects of the gathering. Speaking obliquely, as doctors often do, the retiring president of the Physicians, Professor James Howard Means of Harvard, urged his adherents "to develop an enlightened opposition party within the democracy of the A.M.A." His adherents took this to mean that Dr. Means was in favor of ousting the elected heads of the A.M.A. But Dr. Means merely meant that he feared that those leaders may prevent his ideas from being discussed at San Francisco...
...without his active attention to the problem. As the roads gloomily revealed that car-loadings last week were lower than for the same week in 1932 when Depression was at its blackest, the President called a Cabinet meeting where he was reported to have said that he would favor letting the roads go "through the wringer" to reduce top-heavy capitalizations were it not that large insurance companies and banks would suffer greatly. That afternoon he told his press conference that he had decided against the outright subsidy proposed last fortnight by Railway Labor's George Harrison. Subsidies...