Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brown shirts, for Hitler; some black shirts, for Mussolini; some red shirts, for Stalin, and some the white shirt, white ducks and panama of Fisherman Roosevelt. They raised beer cans in a fascist salute. Said their placards: Frankie is just a lot of Frankfurter, Beware of Third Termites, When bigger and better dictators are made, he'll be a Harvard...
...Stanley Spencer, led enthusiastic Italian critics to call the British show the finest in the history of the biennial. C. In Paris, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art's Three Centuries of American Art, most extensive U. S. show ever held in Europe (TIME, May 23), drew bigger crowds than any recent Paris exhibition, attentive critical scrutiny of some 200 paintings, 80 prints, 250 movie stills. Gallic critics spoke warmly but vaguely of the show's passionate interest, weaseled on criticism of individual artists, noted that in architecture the U. S. genius was best expressed...
...time U. S. Open record with a score of 281 last year. Now, comfortably employed as pro at New Jersey's Braidburn Country Club, he is the first golfer since Bobby Jones to win the Open twice in succession. Only one golfer before him ever won by a bigger margin (Jim Barnes by nine strokes...
Inventor Green, a lifelong member of the International Typographical Union, prefers not to think about the effect of his labor-saving machine on employment in his craft. Backer Johnson hopes it will mean bigger papers, thus even more jobs. The I. T. U. has already assumed jurisdiction over all workers operating the Teletypesetter...
...Manhattan history is institutionalized in the Museum of the City of New York, to which he gave $450,000. John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave the same. Persistent at the time was a story that Mr. Rockefeller wanted to give more but Mr. Speyer preferred that no gift be bigger than his. Speyer & Co. rarely has taken part in any syndicate of which it was not the biggest member. Its Pine Street building in Manhattan, copied after Raphael's Palazzo Pandolnni in Florence, is occupied by Speyer & Co. alone...