Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milwaukee, when members of meat cutters union local No. 73 picketed his store with placards saying, "UNFAIR," a butcher hired two fat Negro women to walk beside the pickets carrying bigger signs, "JUST MARRIED...
...times until at last he bought space in the newspapers to plead: "I'll be a dirty name if I'll open Jumbo until it's ready," last week minuscule Billy Rose finally presented in Manhattan's Hippodrome the spectacle that was supposed to be BIGGER THAN A SHOW, BETTER THAN A CIRCUS. First-nighters were provided with a scale by which to judge the production as soon as they got their tickets, which were precisely nine times the normal size. When they took their seats in what is still the world's fourth largest...
...President's emissary gloomed paternally about railroads, took a few digs at their "banker management," then seconded his chief's plea for bigger & better lending. "Since real estate is the basis of all wealth and industry the most essential factor in employment," pleaded Mr. Jones, "these should have, to a reasonable and safe extent, favored treatment by banks in making loans." The bankers had heard that tune before from Jesse Jones, and when he finished his address, the RF Chairman grinned, drawling...
...large the results of last week's off-year elections proved merely that the Democratic majority is: 1) in New York, not so big as it was a year ago; 2) in Kentucky, still bigger; 3) in Philadelphia, not yet a majority (see p. 14). To Franklin Roosevelt, however, it proved that blood will tell in Dutchess County. On the evening of Election Day at Hyde Park a torchlight procession marched to the Roosevelt home headed by Elmer Van Wagner, 38, bushy-haired proprietor of a garage and an automobile sales agency, first Democrat elected Supervisor of Hyde Park...
Alice felt quite puzzled at the Dodo's last remark, but all she said was: "Why wouldn't it be easier to make the pans and ovens a little bigger...