Word: favors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said: "I do not favor any general extension of the Federal Government into the operation of business in competition with its citizens. . . . There are local instances where the Government must enter the business field as a by-product of some great major purpose, such as improvement in navigation, flood control, scientific research or national defense...
...Republican persistence, was beginning to loom with Prosperity as one of the campaign issues. National Chairman Work (Republican) drew National Chairman Raskob (Democrat) into a public tariff debate, in the course of which Mr. Raskob promised to resign if it could be shown that Nominee Smith did not favor a protective tariff. That put it up to Nominee Smith, who was already very busy planning where to go and when to speak along the border between the North and South...
...week prior. He came down hard on the Hoover equivocating over water power and Muscle Shoals (see Republicans). He extricated himself from the position on immigration into which he felt Nominee Hoover had tried to place him. He said: "In Tennessee, the Republican candidate said, 'I do not favor an increase immigration.' Why does he say that? . . . I do not favor any letdown [of alien restrictions] at all. ... It smacks a little too much of the old-time legal practice that they used to tell about, when the lawyer wanted to get the witness in bad by saying: 'When...
...Academy Promptly Father and Mother Dumbjohn print accounts of young hopeful's appointment in the Podunk paper. He is given farewell parties, he lords it over the soft-eyed damsels, he is escorted to the train with the Podunk Fireman's band. The hero is doing the Government a favor to become a cadet...
Some of us favor national prohibition and some oppose it. We think that differences of opinion on this question should not be allowed to overshadow other important matters, such as the establishment of friendly relations with other countries including Latin America; the protection of national waterpower; and the relief of agricultural depression, as to which governor Smith's desire for action contrasts sharply with the eight years' inactivity of the administration to which his opponent has belonged...