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Word: stronger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game so large, and so far reaching, as that which the President's compromise has set in motion. The alternative is to strike, while the emergency Iron it hot, for a Supreme Court decision that will rehabilitate the bases of administrative jurisdiction, and make the Federal Trade Commission even stronger than it was before Ben Avon's axe fell; despite the optimism of the administration newspapers, there is not much reason to believe that Justice Hughes' conversion renders a reactionary tack either impossible or improbable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...entitled to receive back the full amount they had paid in on installment, plus interest. ¶Stockholders of Socony-Vacuum finally satisfied the proposed merger of their Far Eastern oil properties with those of Standard Oil (N. J.) (TIME, Aug. 21). Thus a new overseas empire came into being, stronger than the sum of its parts: whereas Socony-Vacuum had markets in the East but no production, and Standard Oil had production but lacked markets, new Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. will have both. ¶It was news last October when Atlas Tack Corp. announced that it had started to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Downtown | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...disagreeable, and its implications so unintelligent, that the student body will not tolerate it long. Their target, which has been the University, is now the Massachusetts Legislature, and they must address that target with force and diligence. A concession might be made in the form of the stronger malt beverages, of porter and ale, but the limit itself must be reduced to eightees years. Not only the convenience of the marginal group is involved, but also that necessity for same and enforceable law upon which so much of the repeal propaganda itself was based...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEER IN THE HOUSES | 12/21/1933 | See Source »

...Russia is growing stronger and stronger. If such an attack were made, Japan would have to make it within the next six months. Russia's current project of colonizing Siberia is purely a defensive move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russo-Japanese War Imminent, Says Bryan, Returned From Visit to Russia-No Enmity From Europe Over Recognition | 12/19/1933 | See Source »

...least one day in seven free; a living wage; "suitable provision" for old and incapacitated workers. Tame though it sounds today, Dr. North's social program struck many a good churchman as downright radical in 1908. Since then the Federal Council has revised its credo, adding notably stronger clauses on social planning and control of credit and money; a "just share" of profits for workers; old age, sickness and unemployment insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Federal Council's 25th | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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