Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic Senator Burke of Nebraska (advocate of a single six-year term for Presidents): "He [Franklin Roosevelt] thinks he could carry out his program better than anyone else. In this situation there will always be people around who will urge him to seek a third term...
Back in the U. S. last week after a successful 15-day drive to raise $500,000 in England for the transfer of refugee children from Central Europe to Palestine, crusading Comedian Izzy Iskovitch, better known as Eddie Cantor, proudly let it be known that young Palestine settlers have named the town of Kvutzat Aryeh in his honor. The children translated his first name as "Aryeh." Its meaning: "The Lion." Informed that Motor Magnate Henry Ford had accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from the anti-Semitic German Government on the occasion of his 75th birthday fortnight...
...city desks cut up. The Post ran an eight-column head: NAGIRROC YAW GNORW OT LIAH. The Journal and American (Hearst) ran a banner head, WELCOME TO YOU O'CORRIGAN in Gaelic, later got a better idea, printed it in green. The Sun, which had previously used Corrigan's unorthodox navigation as a stick to beat the New Deal, announced: PARADE GOES RIGHT WAY. In various cities of the U. S., papers printed their front pages in green. The Los Angeles Herald and Express used the Post's idea, with the added note: "If You Haven...
...Texans, Scott is found in better company than usual, with Joan Bennett as a belle of post-Civil War Texas, and May Robson as her doting grandmother, for his chief associates. The terrain, however, is far more suitable for coyotes than for foxes, and Cinemactor Scott's closest approach to the atmosphere to which he is accustomed in his private life is supplied by a herd of 10,000 snuffling beef cattle which he and Miss Bennett drive up the Chisholm Trail, from the Rio Grande to Kansas...
...solid good sense, extraordinary knowledge. Obvious choice for chairman of the new board, he soon became the obvious choice for president. At first it was planned to give this vital job to some high-powered bigwig. But as the new management completed the reorganization, it became apparent that no better symbol of the new day in Wall Street could be found than 31-year-old Bill Martin. Six weeks ago he got the job at $48,000 a year. As if in benediction of the choice, the market simultaneously vaulted from its rut, has since soared steadily...