Word: preference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes later he amended this, adding: "Aside from [the attack on the Social Security Tax] I prefer to remember this campaign not as bitter but only as hard-fought. There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America...
...These promises, all made in one speech, stamp the Republican candidate as either a dumb-bell or a hypocrite. We prefer the hypocrite theory; we don't believe one man could be as dumb as all that...
Notable fence-sitters are the Cowles family's Des Moines Register and Tribune. Last week the Independent Democratic Cleveland Plain Dealer slid off its fence with a brief editorial declaring: "We prefer Mr. Roosevelt because his philosophy of government is attuned to what we regard as inevitable social and economic trends...
...President, Sidney R. Kent, to London to keep his ear to the ground, his hand on a transatlantic telephone. Fortnight ago, Mr. Kent was suddenly invited to Mr. Maxwell's office in Golden Square off London's Regent Street. If Twentieth Century-Fox would prefer it, said blunt Mr. Maxwell, he would be happy that they should retain their 49% interest in the Gaumont-British holding company. On the other hand he would be equally happy to relieve them of that interest. Convinced that Mr. Maxwell could indeed speak for Gaumont-British, President Kent hurried back...
...that the "props" are of no importance whatsoever. More important as an obstacle to total absorption in the theme are the constant and lengthy breaks between scenes--and there are twelve of them--during which a shrill W. P. A. orchestra performs wretchedly. This reviewer, for one, would infinitely prefer complete silence and an undisturbed opportunity to develop the progression of thoughts induced by the previous scenes...