Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor is concerned the claws of the Blue Eagle are Section 7 (a) of the Recovery Act. Last week Labor got General Johnson to use those claws, not once but twice, on the same day. In each case the result was the same: Labor proclaimed the claws dull, demanded bigger and sharper ones...
...bigger sweepstakes was going on last week but Minister McDowell will never be able to show any interest in the fight between President Eamon de Valera and General Owen O'Duffy, head of the Opposition Fascist Blue Shirts. Last week President de Valera was trying to get the Senate to abolish the Blue Shirts and he still wanted to try General O'Duffy on charges of sedition and incitement to murder. When the conservatives of the Senate refused to pass a bill banning the uniform of the Blue Shirts, President de Valera angrily appealed to the Dail Eireann...
...than the President wanted. Cause of this revolt was primarily the Congressional desire to placate the American Legion and Government employes before election next autumn-a desire which will probably grow stronger as the session draws to a close. To the President the pension and pay restoration was a bigger defeat than either the bonus bill or the St. Lawrence Treaty. It indicated that he might soon have to have Leaders Robinson and Byrns on the carpet for a heart-to-heart if he expected to shove through his domestic legislative program and get Congress out of Washington...
...House of Schiff was a Kuhn, Loeb partner when he inherited his father's 13% interest. This interest is smaller than that of his uncle, Felix Warburg (18%), or of Otto Kahn (14%). But in capital contributed he stands first with $6.500,000. John Schiff also inherits the bigger share of his father's fortune, estimated at the time of his death (1931) to be $100,000.000. John Schiffs grandfather, old Jacob Henry, left an estate in 1920 of $34,000.000 which was divided between John's father Mortimer and his aunt. Mrs. Warburg. Young John Schiff...
...month last year. Sales to dealers were up from 50,212 last year to 82,222. Foreign sales were up 62.3%. In New York State factory employment registered the widest midwinter gain since 1915-5-8%. Payrolls were up 6.2%. Reflecting the farmer's dogged determination to raise bigger crops on fewer acres, fertilizer sales for the last three months were 110% above the same period year ago. Northbound banana trains from San Francisco to Portland last year averaged 13 or 14 cars. Last week they were running more than 50 cars...