Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because the bombing of the gunboat Panay has made the U. S. more receptive to the idea of a bigger Navy and because a Naval building program would help depressed business, Washington was not surprised when Franklin Roosevelt wrote to Chairman Edward Taylor of the House Appropriations Committee...
...wrong for the Class Day Committee thus to allow itself little concern. Seniors are and should be greatly interested in making their graduation a bigger and better thing. An intelligent committee can always improve the occasion...
...through his imperious desire to name one-third of the Senate himself, instead of merely confirming the hand-picked appointees of the Premier and Cabinet who hitherto have filled the 53 appointive Senate seats. If & when his youthful Majesty undertakes to carry out this idea Egyptians will have something bigger. & better to bicker over...
...only workers and peasants, but all Russians including priests, bourgeois and ex-aristocratssal suffrage; to vote man for man as equals; to elect not merely little men to vote for bigger men, but to choose directly their own representatives to the new Russian 1,143-member parliament, the Verkovnyi Soviet or Supreme Council; to vote not in public by a show of hands, but in private in a red-curtained booth, by secret ballot according to their own convictions...
...with a commission business sideline. With the divorce of underwriting from banking, the high-powered personnel of the Guaranty Co. (securities affiliate of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co.) found itself out of a job, and after a little dickering moved into E. B. Smith. Senior partner of this bigger & better E. B. Smith was the old Guaranty Co. President, Joseph Rockwell Swan, to whom Senator Wheeler once remarked, in connection with Van Sweringen financing: "I do not doubt your good faith but I do doubt your judgment." The old firm had capital and the Guaranty men had connections-most...