Word: preference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard the managers of the House of Representatives formally prefer impeachment charges against Federal Judge George W. English of the Eastern District of Illinois, and summoned the Judge to appear before the Senate...
...denying this eventuality between times. The truth of the matter has been that Premier Jon Bratiano's Liberal party has indeed been losing ground, as was indicated recently at the minor municipal elections; and with the parliamentary elections now immediately in the offing, it was thought that he would prefer to step down from power a little in advance of the coming storm. The correspondents seized upon every rumor that he had resigned and cabled it as news...
...business man would prefer making $100 in his business to being repaid $5 of a debt. The farmer or the laboring man would rather have a market for our surplus in Europe than save a dollar of Federal taxes...
...American has to contend with a greater evil, one that defies government interference. This iniquity, the Economist calls cutthroat competition. Surely, the American Romeo, who engages in this sort of financial competition with his rivals when the supply of Romeos is great and that of Juliets small, would prefer to hand over 25, 30, or even 50 dollars to the bride's father as a cheap...
...graces that make for success in society?but likable. But of course this is not Andrew Volstead. Volstead is a myth. Volstead is a figure as noble as John Barleycorn is sinister, a powerful crusader, a tower of righteousness, a leader of a great cause?or, if you prefer, he is a bigoted little reformer, a benighted, misguided zealot...