Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robinson grew red and angry. A few moments later his heart began to flutter and pain ran through his chest. He went out on the terrace to sit in a rocker until he felt better. He decided to take a day of rest. He held a conference with Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky and other lieutenants who were leading his Court fight, then returned home although he could not well be spared from the fight...
...seemed willing to vote for this modified plan. But during the week of debate, men on whom he had counted had been slipping away. The opposition had been arguing that if it was wrong to pack the Court with six justices, to pack it with one was no better. He needed 49 for a clear majority, but now there were baiely 50 left and he wasn't sure of all those...
...front that left him out on a limb-won Joe Robinson the pity and respect of the men who fought him hardest on the Senate floor. As a soldier he had the admiration of the entire Senate, even of those who thought he was a soldier worthy of a better leader...
...Board's complaint accuses Henry Ford of virtually every unfair labor practice covered by the law. The answer to the complaint was signed not by President Edsel Ford or any other officer of the company but by Harry H. Bennett, personnel director and head of the Ford police, better known as "Ford service men." Though the Ford answer denied both the charges and the Labor Board's jurisdiction over workers employed in local manufacture-thus laying the foundation for a probable Supreme Court challenge-the Labor Board's case was largely concerned with the activity of Harry...
Where the Dictator of China succeeded, the President of Brazil, vigorous Getulio Vargas, last week did even better. Washington last fortnight agreed to let China buy with silver an unannounced quantity of sterilized U. S. gold (TIME, July 19).* Last week President Roosevelt and Secretary Morgenthau gave Brazil the right to buy with U. S. paper currency up to $60,000,000 in gold. This coup for Rio de Janeiro marked the first time the New Deal has thus favored a foreign country excepting Britain and France. Mexico, like China, has been permitted to buy U. S. Treasury gold...