Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic machine under control. In 1931-32 the Massie rape & murder case gave the insular government a black eye, revealed an unwholesome connection between local politics, local justice and local race feeling. Aware of the strategic importance of the islands, high Army & Navy officers have long demanded civilian rule stronger and better than resident Governors have been able to supply. Of late Big Business on the islands has thought about an outsider as Governor...
...none for V. M. I. Wilmer Hines and Lenoir Wright. No. 1 and No. 2 for North Carolina, won the doubles title together and then played each other in the singles final. It was a match they had played many times before, on the same courts. Hines, steadier and stronger overhead, lost the first set. then used the advantage of Wright's surprise to win the next two easily. After the rest Wright, a Phi Beta Kappa man who prefers brawn to brain on a tennis court, ran up a 3-1 lead. Hines, steady, methodical, clever, whittled down...
...liberalized regulations for alcoholic beverages provide for whiskey, brandy, rum, gin, alcohol and other distilled drinks. They also provide for wines fermented from grapes and berries, which are stronger in alcohol than 3.2%, and for drinkable drugstore elixirs, spirits and tinctures...
...spouted through 10,000 pinholes in the earth's crust it greased the skids of oil prices. Tighter & tighter the industry drew its proration rules but prices fell to 10?. Then the Governors of Oklahoma and Texas shut down the wells with State troops until new and stronger prorationing measures should be put in effect. The U. S. consumes 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 bbl. a day. With Oklahoma producing around 400,000 bbl. a day, California around 500,000 bbl. and a scattering of other States 400,000 bbl., less than...
Chancellor Dollfuss. Christian Socialist (Catholic) leader, needed all the backing he could get. Austrian Nazis were growing stronger each day. Until last week he had the official support of Austria's homegrown Fascists, the Heimwehr. Nearly half the Heimwehr split away last week. published an announcement ''acknowledging without condition or restriction Adolf Hitler as leader of the German nation...