Word: broader
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calm sea. Two Coast Guard cutters thereupon went alongside, spent two hours firing one-pounders pointblank into her below the water line. At last she filled with water, sank in 150 fathoms. The Navy's mocking grin at the Army's aerial coast defense was broader than ever...
Both French and German delegations took the same train to London. Public smiles were even broader. Swarthy Laval waved a newspaper over his head and laughed out loud to the delight of photographers. German Foreign Minister Curtius had something real to smile about. Word had just reached him that he was for the first time a grandfather. But gloomy was Scot MacDonald who opened the conference that night. Said he: "If we cannot find a solution to the present crisis it will be difficult to stay the flood before it has overwhelmed the whole of Central Europe, with consequences-social...
...carriers obtain the necessary relief, they said. Joint water-&-rail rates and existing differentials would be maintained. The Commission, however, was asked to approach the question not from the rate angle, necessitating protracted hearings on the "reasonableness" of each proposal, but from the broader revenue angle as an emergency step for financial relief...
While the President was thus conferring up in the mountains, his Secretary of the Treasury in Washington broadcast a speech in which he proposed undefined tax changes to meet the deficit. What Secretary Mellon seemed to be arguing for was a broader income tax system to include more citizens ("Some 380,000 individuals now pay 97% of the tax"), and an increase in excise taxes...
...Australia disgusted with Theodore, Scullin & Co.? Believing that she may be, Opposition Leader John Greig Latham (Nationalist) took a drastic step last week. He resigned, handed over leadership to a politician of broader popularity, Joseph Aloysius Lyons, former Acting Treasurer of Australia. He, by attracting to the Nationalist cause waverers and independents, may be able to roll up a vote that will unseat Labor...