Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Step by step events broke down the unity of the Majority. In the spring, if the President had been willing to accept two instead of six new Justices for the Supreme Court, the greater part of his Majority would have rallied round him. Instead, their overtures rejected, the moderates became irreconcilables. When finally the President yielded, gave Leader Robinson a free hand to work out any compromise possible, the chance of doing so had grown slender. When Congress convened, Leader Robinson predicted that it would have successfully adjourned by June...
Last week Warner Brothers released a movie which is probably the outstanding prestige picture of the season. It is also one of the best shows. The Life of Emile Zola has an even greater claim to the attention of adult cinemaddicts because its star, Paul Muni, having won last March the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' award for the most distinguished performance of 1936 (The Story of Louis Pasteur), can be considered, at least until next March, the First Actor of the U.S. Screen...
...Vertaplane. By flying as an airplane and landing as a windmill plane it would seem to combine the advantages of both." A group of Government scouts, newshawks and tradepaper reporters felicitated the inventor, expressed keen interest, hoped the ship's inventor could design it for greater payload. It is now designed as a two-place plane...
...share for every ten now held, at a price to be announced. Declared the Macy directors in a statement which might have been improved by Macy's copy department: "It is prudent to raise additional capital at this time to provide against contingencies calling for greater working capital and to provide against a reduction of its cash funds, which assuming a reasonable dividend policy, it expects would otherwise take place over the next year, due to increased working capital requirements resulting from a general expansion of the corporation's volume of business...
...prudent to raise additional capital at this time to provide against contingencies calling for greater working capital, and to provide against a reduction of its cash funds, which assuming a reasonable dividend policy, it expects would otherwise take place over the next year, due to increased working capital requirements resulting from a general expansion of the corporation's volume of business...