Word: greater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first of a series of addresses on money and depression. "Mr. Speaker and fellow members of Congress," hopefully began gaunt, gold-toothed Representative Gray, who had informed his colleagues by letter and in the Congressional Record of his intention to take the air to harangue them at greater length than even his spectral appearance has ever induced them to listen to him from the floor...
...really chose Wilson's cabinet, making his friend Bryan Secretary of State, and he appointed many ambassadors. A Snow White among wolves, he worked for "peace without victory" in Europe and for the "freedom of the seas" principle. His ego was satiated as the power behind the throne; greater power no other private citizen ever wielded as a sincere and quiet reformer...
...Want To Die. Famed correspondents with the Leftists, such as New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, who have kept cabling during the 20 months of the civil war that bombs only temper the morale of the people and spur them to greater resistance, last week reported new facts...
Threatened last week with "meet and proper" disciplinary action by his union (Local 802 of the Associated Musicians of Greater New York) was Dr. Walter Damrosch, venerable symphony conductor. Reason: He had charged that the union has created unemployment by trying to maintain high wages, that there are only 2,000 good musicians among its 15,000 members...
...Dead, in giving a clear flash of what makes the contemporary U. S. hard for everybody to take: At Gauley Bridge, W. Va., a hill being tunneled on a hydro-electric project turned out to be 90-even 99% pure silica, of great metallurgical value. Consequences: the silica, for greater speed, profit, was mined dry; the tunnel workers developed silicosis, died like ants in a flour bin; lawyers representing the workers charged their clients some 50% of the piddling compensations collected; a committee took the matter up before Congress. Net result: Bill blocked, investigation blocked; the workers left their flour...