Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although "FHA houses" has come to be a legitimate, if loose, expression, Reader Walkeen is correct: FHA does not build houses, simply insures mortgages on houses built to its speciftions. Garner partisans say his houses are cheaper, FHA partisans say FHA houses are much better built. Mr. Garner, as is his custom, says nothing...
...National Parole Conference, told them that, with 60-70,000 prisoners coming out of jails and reformatories every year, their handling by the different States is of vital concern to the country. Said he: "We know from experience that parole, when it is honestly and expertly managed, provides better protection for society than does any other method of release from prison...
Mayor Flynn's attitude used to be: "Prostitution will continue to exist in some form. It is far better for the community if prostitutes are known, regulated and examined...
...campaign. Chosen to speak at the first tryout were new Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas, new Governor Ray Baldwin of Connecticut, new Senator Robert Taft of Ohio. Of these, Governor Baldwin did the best job of speechmaking but Senator Taft got the biggest headlines: in slightly better oratorical form than the night of his Gridiron Dinner fiasco (TIME, April 24), he took the bold political risk of accusing the President of the U. S. of using foreign policy as a curtain for his domestic difficulties. Excerpt...
Probably few national leaders have been so misunderstood and so tragically underestimated. The French regarded the man who was to relegate them to a second-rate continental power as a funny man with a Charlie Chaplin mustache. They soon learned better. Others thought the Führer often acted from vanity, wrath and petulance, whereas nothing has become more evident than that he has followed a straight line of policy. He has long been pictured as emotionally unbalanced, but probably few men in public life have their emotions so completely under control. The man who in six short years...