Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head of the procession were dragged off to police headquarters where their names were recorded, after which, according to police reports, they were released. Because this was the first mass demonstration on record against a Reich decree. Nazi bigwigs grew panicky. Fearing that there might be an even bigger demonstration outside the Court House while Pastor Niemöller was on the stand they discreetly postponed the trial...
...last week both roads were finished. Proudly Il Duce ordained for the bigger one the honor of an official opening...
Across the Capitol in the House, Mississippi's John E. Rankin led the NLRB attack. Fighting the Board's request for a bigger appropriation to handle some 200 cases every month, Congressman Rankin swore he would oppose appropriating another dollar "until representatives of NLRB cease the communistic activities by which they are stirring up strife in every section of the country, and especially in the Southern States. I cannot withhold my protest until the streets of Southern towns and cities are stained with the blood of innocent people...
...Walker flair, and after two years Walker was glad to get rid of him. Since then Grover Whalen's talents have been devoted to private business and movements for civic improvement, chief of which was heading NRA's headquarters in Manhattan. Last year, he got an even bigger job: head promoter for New York City's World's Fair of 1939. Once more his tailored form was produced in rotogravure and then the lightning struck. He was chosen as the New Deal, anti-Tammany candidate for mayor...
...reforges until they are as good as new. Run by Youngstown's William Wilkoff, one of the founders of Youngstown Sheet & Tube, the company has about $1,300,000 in assets, needs cash to pay off some notes and to increase working capital so it can handle bigger orders in the railway car division, which also manufactures new cars...