Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commissioner Coulter was chief economic adviser to the old Commission. Commissioners Page and Dennis had both served on earlier tariff boards. The question of why the President did not appoint bigger and better men to elevate the new Commission above the old, as he had promised, was answered by the fact that a score of distinguished economists and business experts had declined appointment for fear of personal abuse during confirmation by the Senate. Unappointed was the third Democratic commissioner. Democrats immediately charged President Hoover with "rank and inexcusable partisanship" in holding up this last appointment while a high-tariff Republican...
...stock interest in that company. There was no cash transaction. The Hearst-Canadian Power deal was the second of recent months to shake the battlements of International Paper.- In June, Lord Rothermere merged his Anglo-Canadian Pulp & Paper Mills, Ltd. with C. P. & P., making the latter company bigger than I. P. & P. which was before that the biggest in the world. C. P. & P. as merged has a daily capacity of 2,500 tons of newsprint from six mill properties in Quebec. Its timber limits contain over 90,000,000 cords. And as the Rothermere interests are the largest...
...sister, Marcia, 12, is editor) was plaintiff, suing for $182 payment for advertising. Editor Bacon testified that a Mr. Matthews, erstwhile Petro salesman, asked to take a full-page advertisement for 14 issues. "I argued with him because I knew I'd have to make the paper bigger. I go to school and I have plenty of work to do. ... I tried to compromise and I asked him to take only a column . . . [but he] got his way. . . . I got the money for the first week's advertisement and that is all. I personally know that good results...
...Hard Work, Lady Optimism, Little Johnny Pay Roll and Miss Good Fortune are here to take your places. I understand that even ' now Miss Good Fortune has become engaged to Mr. Bigger Buyer...
Critics had predicted a runaway for the Americans. This did not happen. Through the first half, and until the seventh chukker. the Englishmen made it hard. Lacey's Argentine ponies outran the bigger U. S. mounts for a while; first Guest, then Roark and Hitchcock broke mallets. Lacey stole the ball from Hopping and Hitchcock for beautiful shots. What the English team lacked most was an accurate goal shooter like Pedley. Consistently the ball was fed to Balding at No. 1, but under pressure, Balding's shots were sliced, sometimes missed entirely. In the last periods...