Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Granting bigger scholarships to gifted students is one step to better the situation. But alloting stipends such as the Emergency Relief Administration maximum of $20 a month is only to prolong the misery. Nothing short of an economic revolution can provide everyone with funds sufficient for proper utilization of academic opportunity. Until then, the affirmation of President Dennett of Williams deserves attention: "What appears to be needed is not more college graduates, but fewer and better ones...
...cosmopolitan group of well-groomed gentlemen and their ladies sat down for a long and pleasant dinner. No ordinary meal was this. Eleven years ago to the very night Lucius Boomer played host to the same group in his old Waldorf-Astoria down on 34th Street. Now in his bigger & better Waldorf on Park Avenue Mr. Boomer was again entertaining the officers and executive committee of the International Hotel Alliance...
...Deal than the Ambassadorship of Poland which he spurned When Franklin Roosevelt offered it last year. Without the support of many a potent Massachusetts Democrat and in spite of Republican Gasper Bacon's hammer & tongs attack on his record, Votegetter Curley piled up a majority for Governor bigger than the Democratic majority...
...Government believes that a corporation has, in a given year, laid up a bigger surplus than it "reasonably" needs, simply to dodge taxes, it may punish the concern by a penalty of 25% to 35% on its net income for the year. Last week the Treasury revealed that it had levied such penalties on some 100 U. S. corporations. Prime targets on its lists were personal holding companies. Most famed was Fisher & Co.. holding company of Detroit's six Fisher brothers (automobile bodies), down for $17,199,797 for alleged evasions in 1929 and 1930. Others and penalties...
Rolling up even bigger margins than the students, the Faculty part of the CRIMSON poll yesterday declared Gaspar G. Bacon '08 a 20-1 favorite over Mayor Curley and condemned the Rooseveltian policies 3-1. Ballots from nearly 200 professors were returned to the CRIMSON in the instructors' division of the straw vote...