Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politics. For 15 years Mr. Cutting has published the Santa Fé Daily New Mexican and El Neuvo Mexicano (weekly in Spanish) and with them has supported four Democratic and two Republican gubernatorial candidates. He was a Roosevelt "Bull Mooser" as well as an anti-Wilsonite. "Independent" describes him better than "Republican". He acknowledged "a heavy responsibility" as he entrained last week for Washington to present his credentials and take a seat which, though it will be across the aisle from where Senator Jones used to sit, and though the new name on the roll-call will come right after...
...Traylor, Silas Hardy Strawn, David Robertson Forgan, Walter Ansel Strong and many another potent, eminent, Chicagoan sat down. And Mayor William Hale Thompson sat down too. He was the guest who caused the most comment-social comment outside of Chicago, because few non-Chicagoans realize that Chicago's "better element" have not only tolerance but affection for Mayor Thompson; political comment everywhere because Mayor Thompson, undoubted controller of the Illinois delegation to the Republican Convention, has been reputed an enemy of the Dawes-Lowden presidential boom...
Through his associations, the farmer is supposed to learn how much to plant so that there will not be a price-shrinking surplus. But most farmers are individualists. Far better than an association do they like a free-for-all, where every man raises as much as he can. Aid in marketing a surplus continues to interest most farmers more than laws of supply & demand...
Picturesque is the story of how the tavern keeper Allessandro Mussolini-father of Benito-warned his tap-wench Rachele Agostini against his son. "Do not let yourself think of that young man," he is said to have said. "It would be better to throw yourself under a train. Married to him you will have neither happiness nor peace...
...want the Foundation to be so administered that it will result in better homes, better schools, better and more intelligent people, healthier and happier conditions of life, greater morality and more widespread regard for the love of God and the Gospel of Christ...