Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received $671,980; French $216,800; Scandinavian and Finnish $191,225. To help the Chinese Government "make over a medieval society in terms of modern knowledge," the Rockefeller Foundation last year allotted $843,875. But "the work, the devotion, the resources, the strategic plans of Chinese leaders for a better China, have disappeared in an almost unprecedented cataclysm of violence. . . . The Foundation still maintains its office in Shanghai. Whether there will be an opportunity to pick up the pieces of this broken program at a later date, no one can foretell...
...Todd's conclusion in regard to the less savory pastimes was that the "red lights burn brightest in deteriorated or neglected neighborhoods,"* that the cure is not moral indignation, nor character education, but better living conditions...
There was plenty of psychological stimulus for the decline. Political reports from France were gravest of the grave. President Roosevelt had twitted the "selfish few" in a speech at Gainesville, Ga. two days before. A better reason for the fall in security prices was that U. S. business in general has been bad for six months and last week got worse...
...Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production fell to 79 against 117 last August. The South, with 8¾? cotton (in 1931 it went to 6?, was not as badly off as Mr. Roosevelt told his Georgia audience it was. In the Far West business was far better than in the industrial East, but business sentiment was just as bad because ownership of U. S. industry is not so localized as the factories. And looming on the scene were industrial reports for the first quarter, generally expected to be terrible. Even the Government's business...
...Romano, semi-official newsorgan of the Holy See, once ran a letter guardedly praising Buchmanite aims. One of the prettiest Buchmanites extant, Baroness Connie de Hahn of Budapest, used to say at European meetings: "I was brought up a Roman Catholic, and being changed has made me a much better Roman Catholic." Last week, however, a potent Catholic prelate, Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in England, wrote his clergy informing them that no Catholic might join the Group...