Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the country, as smart Jackson Elliott could see, the pension wave had lesser crests, and in California spring tide seemed at hand. California the wonderland, California the rugged and golden, lies at that edge of the continent where the migrations that made the nation ended. There the last vanguard of pioneers halted and the rearguard of sick, halt, lame, blind, crooked and crazy have caught up. It is a home of saints and scoundrels, heroines and houris. There since Depression I has grown up a strange society in which men born in the great open spaces and hardshells with...
...Chamberlain and Daladier conducted themselves as dignified men of reason and intelligent representatives of nations prepared to fight to their utmost ability if necessary. Lesser men would have been tempted to again snare conceited, sentimental, weak-minded Uncle Sam under the claptrap against dictators and antireligion...
Ignoring this argument and the obvious fact that if an issue becomes sticky and causes a loss to Union Securities Corp. the loss will inevitably be passed on to its investment trust backers, Tri-Continental and Selected Industries last week preferred to lay their new venture to two lesser reasons: 1) they have large chunks of capital they are eager to use; 2) since banks were divorced from underwriting, and death or depression has slashed the ranks of underwriters, there is an acknowledged lack of underwriting capital...
...Army team will use two mules, the larger "Mr. Jackson" and the lesser "Poncho." The lesser is a gift to the Corps from the Ecuadorean Ambassador and will be ridden by the son of the Ambassador a Cadet named Alfaro...
...Alliance men at the convention were wan, tireless President David Lasser. 36, and bespectacled, soft-spoken Secretary-Treasurer Herbert Benjamin. 37. Two-and-a-half years ago Socialist Lasser's original Alliance and Herbert Benjamin's Communist Unemployment Councils submerged their differences, merged with lesser organizations into the present Alliance. The membership (now claimed 400,000. mostly in Eastern, Midwestern and Pacific Coast cities) continually shifts as clients go on & off relief. The leadership is also in constant flux, at the moment includes such active but seldom mentioned figures as John Spain of New Jersey, Lee Morgan...