Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profit status, the Guild's smart Attorney Morris Ernst was equally resourceful. Appearing as a "friend of the court," Attorney Ernst declared: "It is quite clear that respondent [the AP] is not an eleemosynary institution, but is a business association through which member newspapers make greater profits through decreased costs. Assessments vary in the same manner as dividends." For Mr. Davis' manufacturing claim, Mr. Ernst Lad just as ingenious a rebuttal: "News, in its intangible form, is carried over the air by wires; in printed form, it is carried over the ground by rail. The difference in means...
...Alfred E. Smith criticized the New Deal by saying that its policies were (1 contrary to the Party platform of 1932, 2 related to Republican tariff policies, 3 reactionary, 4 of greater help to foreign nations than to the U. S., 5 indirectly the cause of deflation...
...Robinson, who faces a fight for reelection, the President said: ". . . No man deserves greater credit for loyal devotion to a great cause than my old friend and associate. . . ." Afterward Franklin Roosevelt broke the rule that a President never dines out with an individual host, went to dinner at Joe Robinson's home...
...even among the second and third generation of the settlers of this virgin land, gave heed to the future results that attended the cutting of the timber which denuded the greater part of the watersheds...
...Credit Association, which will hold its annual convention this week in Omaha. Unlike NACM, NRCA has no central credit exchange. But records of no less than 60,000,000 U. S. chargers are on file with local credit bureaus in more than 1,000 cities. The Credit Bureau of Greater New York has 3,000,000 alone. These local credit bureaus are, in the main, non-profit-making organizations owned by their members, mostly stores, and any charge account not paid in 120 days must be reported. Delinquencies are entered on a permanent record available to all other members...