Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every summer U. S. Lutherans hold a "Luther Day" picked arbitrarily so that Lutherans may enjoy it in the mountains or at the seashore. Last week came a Luther Day which was notable because it preluded bigger celebrations, to be held Nov. 10 on the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth. Eastern Lutherans, gathered at Ocean Grove, a strict Methodist colony on the New Jersey coast, had the most eminent speaker-Dr. Walter Arthur Maier, editor of the Walther League Messenger (for the young), professor at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis...
...fear on that score." But when the Herex finally broadcast the fact that Ed Kelly had failed to report income of $450,000 in 1926-28 and had settled with the U.S. Treasury in May 1932 for $70,000 in taxes and $35,000 in penalties, it was bigger news for Chicago than the Century of Progress...
...White pulled her wide and she whaled away down the outside, closing like doom on Brown Berry. Fred Egan slapped the reins and Brown Berry began setting his hooves down faster. Running along the rail 50 yards from the finish, Brown Berry set one down on a stone no bigger than a marble. Brown Berry plunged to the ground, his muzzle sliding through the dirt, catapulting Egan against his crupper and down between the shafts. Clinging desperately to the reins, Egan, as game as his horse, somehow hitched himself back on the seat but ten sulkies had swept...
London, Paris, New York City, Philadelphia, Boston all shoot their citizens through tubes in the bowels of the earth as the quickest means of getting them from work to home to work. Chicago, bigger than Paris, Philadelphia or Boston, has eschewed the convenience of subways, kept her citizens where God put them, atop the earth. But Chicago has gone into the bowels of the earth for another convenience that these other cities lack- freight subways. Last week a group of Chicagoans invaded Washington seeking capital from the R. F. C. to add to Chicago's tunnel traffic...
...over these figures*#151;and very opportune were they, for General Motors still has $13,000,000 tied up in closed banks, much of which may prove a loss. Chrysler Corp. topped a first-quarter loss of $3,038,000 by a second-quarter profit of $7,785,000 -bigger than any quarter's profit since 1929. Chrysler sales for the first half were 217,000 cars compared to 222,000 for the whole of 1932. Walter P. Chrysler did not rub his hands -he declared a 50? dividend to stockholders...