Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both machines had other plans. Figuring that so long as they had to fight downstate they had better have a more effective campaigner, Bosses Kelly and Nash gave Bill Dieterich his walking papers. Their candidate, they indicated, would be U. S. District Attorney Michael L. Igoe. Irishman Igoe, a Chicago political veteran, had a major stroke of luck when Federal G-men last month captured Peter Anders, confessed kidnapper and murderer of Chicago greeting-card Manufacturer Charles Ross, took him from California to Chicago to be prosecuted by Mike Igoe's office. Candidate Igoe had himself photographed with Kidnapper...
...Austrian people have been prevented for six years by their constitution from having a nationwide election. This has been because Austria's firm Catholic leaders think, although they may be wrong, that at the polls there would be rather better than a bare majority of votes for installing an Austrian Nazi Cabinet which in turn would merge Austria with Germany. Given last week this situation of pent-up Austrian politics, given Herr Hitler's need of a spectacular success to cap his crackdown on the German Army fortnight ago, and given Herr von Ribbentrop's reputation...
...visit or renewal of contact with their Alma Mater; business pressure, distance, inertia, or a thin wallet sec to that. Yet it is vitally necessary that Harvard alumni do maintain a thread of contact with the University from year to year. This makes for a stronger Harvard, and for better graduates in the future. Furthermore, it gives graduates a chance to meet again with old classmates in their own region. No one will deny the value of such regular contacts...
After it was all over Wellesley went home with its honor vindicated and the Lampoon has its advertising to compensate it for a dull evening. Snorted President Calfee: "They were better at lexicon than looks...
...jobs on Commencement Day. They know that if they get any offer of a job at all, it likely will be of the blue-denim rather than of the white-collar variety. And they'll accept that blue-denim job in the hope that some day times may be better and their college training may help them to advance...