Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greater tribute can be paid to the artistry of Mr. Orson Welles and his company, than the fact, that on Sunday evening, for countless hundreds of sane normal people, something as fantastic as an invasion from Mars was reality...
This added up to a greater sweep (81 seats in the House, eight in the Senate, eleven Governorships ) than Democrats executed in 1930 when they won 55 new seats in Congress preparatory to turning out Herbert Hoover two years later. It was the greatest Congressional turnover since 1894, when the Democrats lost 116 seats midway of President Cleveland's second term. All this accomplishment left Republicans very definitely a minority party. Their chief triumph was that they were proved not extinct...
...Kansas, the sentiment of wheat farmers was even more plain. Said Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace: "The outstanding conclusion ... is that people do not like business depressions.... The new Congressmen will probably be correct in concluding that they have a mandate from the people to ... bring about a greater income for farmers. . . . Here they come, fresh from the people. . . . Let's see what they...
...least as bold as those which have been taken by President Roosevelt. . . . Organized labor in France is not of course willing to pay all the costs and make all the sacrifices." This was not asked of Labor, for M. Reynaud imposed special taxes to milk French employers of greater profits they would make by running longer hours...
...interest in him which will lead to a desire for more of this type of reading, even if it is only the political news in the daily press. Finally, by starting this train of consequences, it should enable him to vote more intelligently and take part in discussions with greater ability...