Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fireside chat last month, the President called for the "early enactment" of laws to 1) control crop surpluses, 2) regulate wages and hours in industry, 3) reorganize the executive branch of the Government, 4) permit regional planning for better use of national resources, 5) modernize anti-trust legislation. In his message this week, he again enumerated the first four, omitted the last...
...shortage. There are only ten combination freight & passenger vessels which could be converted into aircraft carriers. The Navy thinks there should be at least 20. The 300 tankers needed to service the battle fleets are available but there is a deficiency of high-speed tankers (16½ knots or better). When Roosevelt I sent the U. S. Navy around the world in 1908 the fighting ships were followed everywhere by a raffish stream of foreign-flag tenders, a ludicrous exhibition which the Navy Department never forgot...
Long-eared General Matsui, victorious, was asked by correspondents if he would now attempt to press Japan's advance to capture the Chinese capital of Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, famed Nanking, some 200 miles up the Yangtze River from Shanghai. Said General Matsui softly: "You had better ask Chiang Kai-shek about future developments. Chiang is reported to have predicted a five-year war. Well, it might last that long. We do not know whether to go on to Nanking or not. It depends on Chiang...
...appears, and indeed, finds herself quite pleased at the prospect. Mr. Howard finally gives up his reformation, succumbs to her attractions, and is engaged in kissing her just as Miss Davis enters. More or less disturbed, she plots a horrible plight for her straying fiancee, but finally yields to better instincts and Hollywood custom...
While retaining its non-sectarian policies, Phillips Brooks House is collaborating with the church in attempting to better existing conditions, which have been termed intolerable by those whom they have affected...