Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtain the necessary "unanimous" vote condemning Soviet Russia in the Assembly, although unanimous notes are not necessarily there, President Carl J. Hambro, also Speaker of Norway's Storting (Parliament), tried an old parliamentary trick. He simply acked all those in favor of the resolution to remain seated. No delegate was brave enough to rise and declare he was for the Soviet Union. In the Council, the League executive organ, where one negative vote means defeat of a measure, those voting for Russia's ouster were France, Great Britain, Bolivia, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, the Union of South Africa...
This week Chief Justice Hughes stood up, spoke through his thinning thicket of milk-white whiskers a decision in favor of the Government's view, said: "We cannot believe that Congress intended to create so great a breach in historic remedies and sanctions." There was no dissent,* and back went the case to Chicago, where the milk monopolists will now be tried...
Fleischman, along with other undergraduates from Harvard, Radcliffe, and Wellesley, was an active supporter of the taxi strike here last spring. The cabbies were holding out for a living wage of $15 and a ten hour day. After five weeks the dispute was settled in their favor...
...Weekly board, excluding breakfast," Sperry continued, "may be secured for less than $5, and I am afraid that Divinity students, for this reason, would not be in favor of a graduate housing unit that would mean an increase in the cost of meals...
...sorry student who joined with the idea that he, as a "Harvard man," had few if any obstacles in his way. I seriously doubt that he could last for three drills. On the other hand, a man with the ability to be at Harvard has that ability in his favor when coming up before the examination board...