Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago plants. This is because the Company is "violating city health and building ordinances", a statement so palpably absurd, when the temporary living conditions established inside the plants are examined, that it falls of its own weight. Further the company cafeteria is now supplying gratis better food and more of it than the men themselves would probably buy. Mayor Kelly's action is simply what one expects from a prominent demagogic leader, and the C. I. O's expression of "appreciation" is really unnecessary when one remembers their leader's contribution to the Great Cause of Democracy last November...
...rather a sprucing up of the existing method. Consideration for others in not talking during the period, alertness in distributing blue books when they are called for, and uniform enforcement of the closing time, with adequate warning, would assure fairer treatment all around. Of course it is obvious that better cooperation from certain parts of the undergraduate body in stopping on time will have to be forthcoming, for the enforcement authorities have not been completely to blame in this. But in general dealings with the students it is not too much to ask that the proctors bear in mind...
Franklin Roosevelt was in a little better than his usual good humor one day last week when his newshawks came to press conference. The session had been postponed from the usual 10:30 a. m. to noon to get maximum attendance. Soon he was pouring into their ears a tale of unethical practices, of rich men who had avoided taxes by hiring high-priced lawyers to find loopholes in the law. He had before him case histories provided by the Treasury Department. One man had incorporated his yacht and transferred to the corporation $3,000,000 in securities. Much...
Newshawks smacked their lips over a good story and a better one to come, for tax-dodging tycoons are juicy copy. But newshawks were gently cynical, just two years ago at this time the President put forward his soak-the-rich inheritance, gift and surtaxes. Early last year he put forward his undivided profits tax on corporations. Some suggested that Franklin Roosevelt was having a periodic attack of soak-the-richitis...
Browder was asked if he didn't think, it would be better to send an ambulance to each side. "I would be absolutely in favor of that," he asserted, "If you can get Franco in the rebel's ambulance...