Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Haigis, winding up his campaign in whirlwind fashion, is addressing from 20 to 30 meetings every day in the vicinity of Greater Boston. He has already covered Western and Central Massachusetts earlier in the fall...
...reference to the presidential appointment but as well in regard to the senatorial and gubernatorial candidates in the state. Such a role cannot be too highly praised, either when the college is represented as a group or individually. Harvard graduates and under-graduates should and must take an even greater part in the political activities of the state and country. If and when they do, they will prove an asset both to the University and to the system of education under which they were fostered...
...minor issues rolled away, that Alf Landon was playing his opponent's game. The New Deal had not helped but hindered the return of Prosperity, drummed the Republican Nominee; real Prosperity could not be said to exist while 11,000,000 citizens remained unemployed; Republican rule would bring greater Prosperity; New Deal spending threatened the foundations of future Prosperity. Meantime, as the Democratic Nominee coursed eastward from Colorado, drawing great crowds everywhere and everywhere demonstrating his mastery of them (see p. 12), he hammered again & again at a single thesis: the New Deal has restored Prosperity, will preserve...
Hitherto Japanese police have performed the greater part of Japanese thought control upon political prisoners. As in Imperial Russia before the revolution, Japanese sons and daughters of the highest aristocracy have been caught in the dragnet of police raids on radical gatherings...
...Assured by F. W. Dodge Corp.'s Researcher Thomas Steele Holden that U. S. building construction in 1936 will be 50 or 60% greater than last year, members of the U. S. Building & Loan League, in convention at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, made what, for them, was a fine concession to Public Housing. They nodded righteous approval to a report which suggested: "If a substantial number of families cannot pay an economic rent, we recommend that the Government extend rent relief or rent subsidy, rather than follow the course of building and permanently renting to a group...