Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been forced to hand in his resignation, sick old Aristide Briand clung to his Foreign Office desk at the Quai d'Orsay until the last minute. Premier Laval called personally, begged him to accept an honorary Cabinet post. Brer Briand issued an acid statement: "M. Briand would prefer to study the juridical and diplomatic form in which he might contemplate eventual collaboration...
...cause celebre. The Supreme Court, by 5-4 decision, denied U. S. citizenship to two Canadians, Rev. Douglas Clyde Macintosh, professor of theology in Yale Divinity School, Wartime chaplain, and Marie Averill Bland, Wartime nurse. Professor Macintosh announced that before bearing arms for the U. S., he should prefer to mull over moral causes. Miss Bland would not promise to bear arms at all. The majority of the Court solemnly pronounced: ". . . We are a Christian people. . . . But we are also a nation with the duty to survive . . . whose government must go forward upon the assumption . . . that unqualified allegiance...
...retirement of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes has called forth from his colleagues praise so emphatic that comment upon it is superfluous. The final estimate of his legal achievements may safely be left to history, by those who prefer rather to recall the personal qualities which gave him his unique place in public esteem. More perhaps than any other man he has helped to maintain the historic dignity of the American bench...
...most important consideration in this case is that such a move would fall in line with the new retrenchment policy, which favors informality rather than gate receipts. A player will not feel in duty bound to attend Spring practice to the exclusion of other activities which he might prefer at that season. Participation, if any, should be entirely voluntary; and to this end, we move that Yale follow Harvard in abolishing formal Spring practice. -Yale News
...prefer not to hear evidence in a case involving my own laundryman," said the magistrate. "Case postponed until...