Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liberal being one with both eyes open to see that an auto moves faster than an oxcart, that trees grow better in sunlight, that all men are not created free and equal...
...told them that the cost of social pioneer ventures like Arthurdale "we justifiably charge off as the inevitable cost of all progress."* A better investment for taxpayers he could not conceive than "able, alert, competent and up-to-date people." And now, "How should taxes be paid...
Significance. To Washington observers who regarded the investigation as a contest between a high-minded oldster (Arthur Morgan), able but unstable, and a purposeful man (David Lilienthal), not too squeamish about the means necessary to promote public ownership in which he heartily believes, shrewd Mr. Lilienthal would have the better of it. Save as a political incident, the investigation appeared important only as it might publicize some lesser known facts about the Government's "widest experiment...
...with accepting a bribe from a slot-machine operator, 2) accused him and the city garbage superintendent of trying to extort $5,000 from Bremerton's No. 1 Citizen, Edward Bremer, in blackmail over a girl. Released on $5,000 bail, Mayor Knabb was promptly greeted by a Better Bremerton League headed by the town's principal ministers, asked to "observe the moral laws as well as the civil laws." Babbled Jesse Knabb: "Aw, those pitiful ministers, one is a Holy Roller and the other is a dead beat. I'm going to start a recall against...
...twelve years as head of I. T. U., his two-and-a-half years of personal affiliation with C. I. O., aggressive President Howard made many an enemy for himself, many friends for Mr. Baker, an able union politician who is no enemy of the C. I. O. A better index to traditionally independent printers' opinions of A. F. of L. v. C. I. O. was provided by their last I. T. U. convention and by a recent referendum. They voted: 1) to remain within A. F. of L., refuse to pay assessments levied by Mr. Green...