Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just between us," President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers of America asked reporters confidentially last week, "what does the public think?" One of those present answered, in a note to his editor: "Where there is public opinion, it is for Martin. He has a better pressagent, a pretty fair radio technique, and pearly teeth...
...Culbert Olson, who pardoned him], repudiated the class struggle and helped to elect to office a man who stands squarely upon the precepts of capitalism-a champion of private ownership. Before and since you [Tom Mooney] gained your freedom, you have expressed your intention to labor for a better social order. And how have you begun? By registering as a Democrat, as reported by the press...
Selling even better than lead soldiers in German toy shops last week was a Nazified parchesi called Juden Raus (Out With the Jews). Advertised as an "entertaining, instructive and solidly constructed" game, its equipment is a pair of dice, a playing board covered with a map of Europe and Asia, a number of small figures patterned after the odious Jewish caricatures of Julius Streicher's Der Stünner. The players shake the dice in turn, move the Jews across the map by stages determined by the dice. The winner: the first player to get all his Jews...
Tight-lipped Imperial officials refused to tell reporters whether the Cavalier's, engines had carburetor heaters. Little better off than newsmen was the U. S. Civil Aeronautics Authority, which didn't know either. Under a reciprocal agreement, Imperial's planes are checked for airworthiness by Britain's Air Ministry at Bermuda. Pan American Airways planes, which ply the same route, are checked by CAA inspectors at Port Washington...
...Littauer, clearly, is no theoretical idealist. He translates his vision into action, within his compass. The school at Harvard, for example, is designed to train superior administrators of public office, a worthy objective, and the Littauer Foundation was founded to promote "better understanding among mankind...