Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ransom. Meantime the frantic Lindberghs were making stronger and stronger efforts to get in touch with the kidnappers. Two days after the kidnapping, NBC broadcast: Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh not only wish but hope that whoever is in possession of the child will make every effort to communicate with them...
...effort having been made, 24 hours later they tried a stronger appeal over their own signatures through the Press: We promise that we will keep whatever arrangements that may be made . . . strictly confidential and we further pledge ourselves that we will not try to injure in any way those connected with the return of the child. The prosecutor of Mercer County, in which lies a part of the Lindbergh lands, agreed to give the criminals immunity. It was then found that the nursery, where the crime was committed, was in Hunterdon County, whose law officers issued no promises...
...militant spirits ran high. Theatres and opera houses were packed with Red soldiers and Red commanders ("officers" have been abolished) who entered free, loudly cheered by passersby. But the great day was not a holiday for Soviet civilians?Josef Stalin saw to that, and Soviet newsorgans dared print nothing stronger than the Dictator's slogan: "We do not want a single inch of foreign soil but we will not give up a single inch...
...subsidiary companies. He is the man who is thought to have worked towards one end recently: the substitution of A. G. & E. preferred stocks wherever possible in the place of subsidiaries' securities. Accomplishment of that end to a great degree has placed A. G. & E. in a stronger position than otherwise Depression might have found...
...give you two examples. First, can anyone doubt that the machinery at Geneva for preserving the peace would have been much stronger during the past six months if from the very beginning of the Manchurian crisis last September our Government had been in avowed and effective cooperation with the Council of the League of Nations? We did send a representative to the Council, with limited powers, in October; but in November and December when we sent Chicago's playboy to Paris, he merely flirted with the Council, saying at one moment that he would and at the next moment that...