Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to make the charge that the U. A. W.C. I. O. is irresponsible. . . . Hasty strike votes, taken before the grievance machinery has been exhausted, may involve the local union in a course that may force it to strike, whether a strike is advisable or not. . . . There is no better way to wreck a local union than to permit small, irresponsible groups to shut down a plant employing thousands of workers. Where small groups threaten unauthorized action [i.e., sit-downs or slowdowns] ... it is the duty of the local union to support the temporary placing of workers...
...objective justice do not exist for us any more. . . . The transition from the normal status of National Socialist legal thinking to thinking in terms of the law of war is being accomplished without grave upheavals. . . . The decisive principle is, who is stronger, who is more determined, who has better nerves? Whoever does not admit this is a pale theorist and is no good for politics or, in the deepest sense, for creative law-giving...
Thus did the armed forces of Cuba, better disciplined, trained and equipped than at any time during the 41 years of Cuban independence, bid formal farewell last week to the former desk sergeant who rose six years ago to become their chief and Cuba's Strong Man. But it was far from Colonel Batista's retirement from Cuban political life. By retiring he became openly the leading candidate for Cuba's Presidency, and his last speech to the Army, Navy and police became the opening address of his campaign...
...lkischer Beobachter was actually indulging in wishful thinking. Joseph Stalin, Friend of Peace, had metamorphosed into Joseph Stalin, Aggressor. And unfortunately his aggression was taking great bites out of German spheres of ambition. Would it not be better, suggested the newspaper, if, like Alexander, Joseph Stalin buckled on his breastplate and greaves and struck out for Illyria, Phoenicia, Babylonia, the empires of Persia and those lands which are watered by the Indus...
Next day came an apparent answer to Völkischer Beobachter's prayer. In Moscow Communist International,official organ of the Communist Party, warned Rumania that she had better conclude an immediate pact with Russia, similar to those granted by the Baltic States and refused by unlucky Finland, and turn over the lost province of Bessarabia. In Moscow, New York Times Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye said he had learned "from a highly qualified observer" that Rumania did not even intend to defend the province-had no fortifications and not a single soldier there, was evacuating Rumanian businesses from...