Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madrid, Emilio Mola was chief of police in Spain, won the title of "the most hated man in Spain" for ordering Civil Guards to fire on the students. No monarchist, he was placed on the retired list in the early years of the republic, was in and out of favor depending on whether the Cabinet was Leftist or Rightist at the time...
...Woolley-Shotwell project. The U. S. hierarchy and Catholic press have had trouble enough explaining away the alliance between the Catholic Basques and the Godless "Reds" of Madrid. Making a fuss over 500 young Basques in the U. S. would, said U. S. Catholics, curry favor for the Leftist (Godless) cause in Spain. The secretary of the Massachusetts State Council of Knights of Columbus wrote to President Roosevelt...
...Philadelphia last week the Northern Baptist Convention wound up its annual gathering (TIME, May 31) after paying its respects to its late benefactor, John D. Rockefeller (see p. 65), and declaring itself in favor of Government-fixed minimum wages, Government-limited incomes. Elsewhere African Methodists (Albany, N. Y.), United Lutherans (Manhattan), United Presbyterians (Chicago), Catho lic Daughters of America (Elmira, N. Y.), Knights of Columbus (Geneva, N. Y.), members of a Movement for World Christianity (Rochester, N. Y.), a Fellowship of Southern Churchmen (Nashville, Tenn.) deliberated, prayed, resolved. Most news worthy conventions of the week...
Browder was asked if he didn't think, it would be better to send an ambulance to each side. "I would be absolutely in favor of that," he asserted, "If you can get Franco in the rebel's ambulance...
Next order of business was to upbraid the secular press, which Catholic journals have long assured their readers is biased in favor of the Government side, for its handling of the Spanish civil war. President Fitzpatrick drew more cheers when he said: "We Catholic editors have been studying for years the conditions in Spain," and offered the services of the Association's members to set secular editors straight...