Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidates. His friends told him that, on a Resubmission plank, he could probably beat Franklin Delano Roosevelt running on a Repeal platform. Newton Diehl Baker or Albert Cabell Ritchie as outright Wets would possibly be harder for him to defeat. Alfred Emanuel Smith, pledged to Repeal, would be far stronger than in 1928 because of economic conditions but it was unlikely that he could win out over the Republican nominee. As the President figured it out alone in the White House, a damp G. O. P. against a dripping Democracy could probably hold enough of the Dry vote...
...that I could ever be elected President. No party would want to nominate me. I haven't got any money and you can't get the Democratic or Republican nomination without money. I never give up a fight but I don't seem to be getting stronger. . . . Who'll get the nomination? It's going to be an open fight with everyone having a chance...
...Budget the tax bill will have to raise well over a billion dollars in new revenue. Last week Washington began to fear that the present measure, for all its pricks and thorns, would not accomplish that purpose. Frank Kent, able observer for the Baltimore Sim, reported a "realization, growing stronger every day, that the tax bill, as passed by the House, falls so far short of balancing the Budget that even an approximate balance can't be claimed. . . . The bill will not pull the Treasury more than halfway to the top of the hole?much less...
...thought to have a chance of beating Australia's late great Phar Lap. This spring there were reports that Twenty Grand was ailing. Last week this was verified. A middle tendon in his foreleg which he ruptured in training last autumn had grown weaker instead of stronger. Mrs Whitney's stable manager said Twenty Grand would be retired to the Whitney farm at Lexington, Ky. for "a short term at stud duty, then a long rest...
...strongest opposition it is likely to encounter this season, the University tennis team will play North Carolina at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon on the Divinity Courts under circumstances which make this the feature match of the season. The Southerners will bring a team believed to be even stronger than that which defeated the Crimson netmen 7-2 last year, breaking a record of 43 successive victories...