Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chance of a fortune. He prospered, however, and when old Mr. Ainsley died, Carr was managing the firm and making a pretty penny for Catherine, who had inherited a controlling interest. All might have been well with Carr and his family if Catherine's heart had not been bigger than her brain. Lomas, Cordelia's rapscallion brother, had been courting her for years, and though Catherine despised him she finally gave in, to discover too late that she had made the mistake of her life. To save Carr's name from being dragged...
...writer of modern times has staked a claim to a bigger tract than Authoress Buck. For U. S. readers, at least. China is her acknowledged province; so far she has the field to herself. The Good Earth, which won her the Pulitzer Prize (1931) and made her name a household word in the U. S., was a best-seller for 24 months-not equalled by any other U. S. novel. Says Introducer Richard J. Walsh: "It seems clear that no native Chinese, however schooled in English prose, could have written of his own people as Mrs. Buck has written...
...toil and worship is that of Amish Colony of the Mennonite sect on the central Illinois flats. Tilling the soil on large farms, its rugged members have always opposed modern machinery on theological grounds. The Colony was steadfast even during the World War, when increased production would have meant bigger profits. Last week the Mennonites compromised. First, rain had held up planting. Second, heat had felled horses. After prayer and conference, the Mennonite elders voted to rent some tractors, to hire some drivers. But piously they vowed that as soon as they caught up, out would go tractors and drivers...
Three weeks ago John P. Morgan told inquisitive Senators that the bigger and more profitable part of his business was banking. Nonetheless a large part of Morgan & Co.'s profit, if not the larger part of its prestige, has been created by its securities business. To give up either part of its activities might easily deprive the other of much profit and prestige. The choice open to Morgan was enough to stump the ablest of bankers. The House of Morgan, ready with no extempore solution, appeared to face a turning point in its history...
...problems of private bankers were, however, largely their personal problems. Much bigger questions were raised by the Banking Act of 1933. On its passage Franklin Roosevelt called up Carter Glass to congratulate him as the father of "the best banking legislation" since his other law creating the Federal Reserve System 20 years ago. Within 48 hours the bid price of the stock of the three largest U. S. banks fell...