Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...votes in New York as Franklin Roosevelt. Having proved a liability rather than an asset his welcome at the White House was not quite so warm, and patronage favors ceased to flow liberally in his direction. Since shortly after the last election Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman have no longer been close friends...
...held that this company's price rating did not lessen or injure competition. In the Bird case, which involved selling floor coverings to Montgomery Ward & Co. for less than the price to retailers, FTC held that the lower price was justified by difference in costs. Moreover Bird no longer sold to retailers, distributing through jobbers who get the same treatment as the mail-order house. But FTC did issue cease-&-desists against two Robinson-Patman violators: Biddle Purchasing Co. (rebates in the form of brokerage commissions from sellers) and Hollywood Hat Co. (for unjustified price discrimination...
...Intelligencer waited a week longer it would have been a dunce to declare no news. Last week was one of the newsiest weeks for small-town editors since Halley's Comet...
...Yorker was evidently unaware that white mice are no longer an fait in London drawing rooms. More than 20 colors are now available-bred by experts who give mouse shows, regard mouse breeding as Big Business and to whom white mice...
...make up the tightly-organized, beautifully-landscaped, fabulous world of a great English cathedral. Lay characters appear in sufficient numbers to afford a gossip circuit between the Cathedral and the town-a female psychiatrist belonging to the "generation of blue-stockings who were defined as women who were no longer ladies, but had not yet become gentlemen," a neurotic old maid on a manhunt, uninhibited servants. It is a lay character also who brings about Canon Carmichael's fall-a beautiful, intelligent German girl who marries a Silbury business man. When the Canon meets her he turns pale...