Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special WPA pay raises so opportunely given in Kentucky and Oklahoma last month. In these two States the primary opponents of Senators Barkley and Elmer Thomas had pointed at local WPA wages lower than those paid in neighboring States, shaming these two Roosevelt favorites for not doing better by the home folks...
...these seventeen million people you would find an overwhelming majority of them believe in collective bargaining . . . social security . . . unemployment insurance. They believe in relief-relief to the needy and unemployed, but not the financing of a vast political machine under the false label of relief. They believe in a better distribution of wealth created, in raising the standard of living, and a great many other social reforms...
...uniformly baked and priced whole wheat loaves, adulterated with 10% corn flour. This week Italian bakers started hauling the new loaves from their ovens and housewives scornfully labeled it "grey bread." Since the decree, a great propaganda campaign has been staged to convince Italians that the new bread is better for them. Three weeks ago Il Duce's own newsorgan, 77 Popolo d' Italia, keynoted: "The new bread is better for a virile nation like Italy because it stimulates man's procreative qualities and is better suited for the nursing mother whose milk is thereby enriched, than...
...price but the average peasant produces only enough for his own needs, has nothing left to sell. Despite frequent cash doles to the peasants, their standard of living has declined so that, especially in the areas south of Naples, some are clothed in tattered rags, live in hovels no better than pigsties...
...year-old Reginald A. Whitcombe, youngest of Britain's three famed Whitcombe brothers who during the past 15 years have won almost every major golfing prize in the Empire: the British Open golf championship; defeating a predominantly British field; with a 72-hole score of 295, two strokes better than second-place Jim Adams of Scotland and three strokes better than the favorite, Defending Champion Henry Cotton, considered by many the world's No. 1 professional golfer; at Sandwich. To Brother Reggie went the distinction of being the first of the Whitcombes to win the Open...