Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily Mail by that newspaper's promise, to the heirs of any person killed in a railroad wreck to pay them ?1,000 if the victim had a copy of the Mail in his possession. Lately Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner offered its readers smaller prizes under milder terms. Adult males detected by a roving reporter in acts of courtesy are awarded $2; boys, $1. If the man or boy is carrying a Herex when the Courtesy Reporter surprises him, the prize is doubled...
...destination of the millions of dollars loaned by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the aid of banks and railroads. Mr. Hoover, on signing the bill said: "It (The R.F.C.) is not created for the aid of big industries and big banks. It is created for the support of the smaller banks." And yet, as Mr. Flynn reveals, the greater part of the money was loaned to large banks. Shortly after Mr. Dawes had resigned as the head of the R.F.C. ninety millions were loaned to his bank in Chicago. Mr. Hoover immediately defended this action; it would help smaller banks...
...days of prosperity when the number of students who required aid was relatively smaller and the opportunities for employment were capable of expansion, it was not necessary to give much thought to this problem. At the present time, however, the demands for scholarships, loans, and employment far exceed the supply, and although everything possible is being done to enable the student of first-rate ability, character and promise to obtain an education, there are some men who doing so much work that they are deriving very little gain from college, while others have been forced to assume such a heavy...
...Tammany Hall may or may not be a burden to the city; they seem a positive jinx to the Italian Line. With pinchbeck little James John Walker aboard, the brand-new 51,000-ton, 28-knot Rex broke down at Gibraltar, reached Manhattan three days late. The slightly smaller, equally fast and ornate Conte di Savoia left Naples on her maiden voyage fortnight ago with New York's Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney as passenger...
...many departments, smaller group meetings are doubtless preferable, and the House and Tutorial systems have already provided the inspiration and the focal points for their organization. But large or small, these groups have many demonstrable advantages. As a method of facilitating closer relations between student and faculty, and of proving, the field of concentration to have some meaning save as a name, the step should command attention...