Word: favors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is small doubt that the time element worked in Count Volpi's favor, but there must have been other factors as well which enabled the Italian negotiator to convince Secretaries Mellon, Kellogg and Hoover and Senator Smoot as well that Italy deserved the terms she got-the most lenient which the U. S. has granted to any debtor nation, not excepting Belgium...
...favor of a campaign of law observance on the part of officialdom...
...second great step is to put all politicians on the water wagon. The personnel of Congress is overwhelmingly dry, both in practice and in precept. But I am in favor of a vigorous policy from the White House down that will break every bottle in official America and send unpatriotic and dangerous politicians to the scrap heap...
...Eagle. Rudolph Valentino has pulled himself successfully out of the mud. The last drying flakes of his tour in favor of Mineralava Beauty Clay have disappeared, and he is once more a foremost favorite of the screen. This latest picture is among his best. It was adapted from the novel of Pushkin, and treats of a Russian youth who (figuratively) thumbed his nose at the Tsarina and considerably displeased the royal household. He becomes a Cossack and makes love, without too much exaggeration, to Vilma Banky...
...will enter today's game a decided favorite. The over confidence that wracked the Blue's chances against Princeton has been replaced by a spurt of grim determination, and Captain Joss's men will go into the Stadium today with the odds at least two-to-one in their favor...