Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawley-Smoot tariff [in 1930], designed as nearly as possible to exclude every foreign commodity deemed in the slightest degree competitive with domestic production. Other countries, either in pursuit of a similar policy or in retaliation, increased their tariffs. The inevitable result was to reduce trade further, to create greater unsalable surpluses, to lower living standards, while privation and unemployment raged among millions...
...nominated last June. Nominee Landon renewed his charges of waste, extravagance, secrecy and political corruption in the administration of relief (see p. 19). Best crack: "On Jan. 3, 1934, the President told Congress: 'If we maintain the course I have outlined, we can confidently look forward to greater employment and a diminution of relief expenses.' We did maintain the course he outlined, but did we get any reduction of relief expenses? We did not. At present the Administration is spending in the name of relief at an annual rate of a billion and a half more than...
...neither his paper Izvestia ("News"), the official daily of the Soviet Government, nor any other Moscow organ printed a line as to the whereabouts of Communism's most popular commentator. According to such Red newsorgans abroad as the Manhattan Daily Worker Comrade Radek has a "dazzling talent greater probably than that of any other Communist journalist" and has ever been "a passionate partisan of the masses." Therefore last week the World proletariat was startled, to say the least, when Sovie Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky accused Prisoner Radek of "political and legal guilt" in connection with the alleged plot against...
...Each entrant will be allowed three prints entry free. Any greater number will encur an entry charge of 76 cents per print, the proceeds to go to the prize winners as the judges may allot...
...India after the elections, so great an authority as Viscount Halifax has written of the Indian provinces, "We cannot say, for example, how cabinets will be formed." Nevertheless they will be formed, under the guidance of the Marquess of Linlithgow, and the new Cabinet Ministers will be Indians with greater powers than they have ever had before, subject to the intervention and control if he sees fit of the Viceroy of India. Large though the new electorate is, another way of looking at the matter is that only 14% of the people of British India have the vote.* The entire...