Word: favors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's most striking characteristic is that he is one of the few prominent Austrians who do not favor Anschluss or union of Austria and Germany...
...complete was the deadlock among factions that all possibility of obtaining a two-thirds majority to amend the Constitution in favor of a third term for President Hainisch quickly vanished. Preliminary balloting showed that the 91 Socialist votes were impotent to elect that party's hastily improvised candidate, Herr Doktor Karl Renner, onetime Socialist Chancellor (1919). Had the deadlock continued after the term of President Hainisch expired, last week, he would have been automatically succeeded by Chancellor Seipel, who would have become President ad interim. Above all Socialists did not want that. Therefore they abstained, 91 strong, thus permitting...
Singing Jailbirds. To Author Upton Sinclair, it seems that the lack of charity with which rich men deal with poor men is a novel wickedness, separate from the other beetlish wars which people wage among themselves. He sympathizes with the poor men and writes tirades in their favor, damning "capitalists." Such a tirade is Singing Jailbirds which was acted last week by the New Playwrights Theatre...
...major arguments in favor of the step are two. Many familiar with the sight of a first-class pitcher who has allowed three hits in seven innings being removed from the line-up to allow a strong hitter to toe the plate. Mr. Heydler's plan would allow the pinch-hitter and keep the pitcher in the game. Besides the elimination of this handicap to a team, Mr. Heydler points out that his plan would speed up ball games by doing away with the annoying delays of getting a pitcher ready to hit, and getting him a sweater when...
...step toward specialization and toward a privilege for pitcher and hitter alike will not find favor, it is likely, with the majority of baseball...