Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italians suffered no defeat, even at Guadalajara, there they retreated before greatly superior force and armaments, after lost about half their effectives, to a better position and there they stop the Reds and are still stopped. Neither the Germans destroyed Guernica, it was Bolshevists and British propaganda...
...five-man board to regulate maximum hours and minimum pay on a flexible basis, allowing for seasonal and industrial conditions. At the last minute the 40-hour and 40? ($16 a week) limits were taken out, leaving blanks for Congress to fill in. This was regarded as better political strategy. Franklin Roosevelt for once had enough specific personal proposals before the Congress...
...most part Devis painted just such pictures as this one on view in the Fogg. In the middle of the eighteenth century this type had become more popular than portraits, for they suited better the prosperous middle class. To produce them, the painters--under Hogarth's lead--had turned for guidance to the earlier Dutch masters...
...financed by a group of publicity experts, labor pirates, professional trouble-makers and highly paid agitators, sitting in richly decorated offices hundreds of miles away; strikes which are planned for months in advance, in which every exigency is carefully provided for and in which the goal is not better conditions for the working men but increased war-chests and amplified political power--these strikes are supremely dangerous, flagrantly illegal in every sense and potential tinder-boxes for they will result in a desperate industrial war sooner or later. The Ford Company from the first day of the depression maintained...
...C.I.O. is not trying to organize the Ford Company from any motives of bettering conditions:--conditions cannot be bettered beyond the Ford standard for some time to come. The important fact is that organization of the Ford employees will mean approximately $6,000,000 additional dues for the C.I.O. and the complete control of the automotive industries of America--an immense and dangerous amount of power for any man or small group. That John Lewis is looking ahead to 1940 is a far more disquieting thought than that he is promising the contented Ford employees even better conditions under...