Word: widest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street"-was spouted by Sian's Chinese Reds last week in almost the identical words of U. S. Red Earl Browder, who announced not long ago: "The Communist Party declares that the issue is 'Democracy v. Fascism,' not 'Communism v. Fascism.' Communists advocate the widest Democracy...
Meanwhile the rest of U. S. Industry, light and heavy, was pouring forth additional data on the end of Depression. Gains were widest in capital goods industries like steel, whose markets contract and expand directly with the business cycle. After a study of 161 corporations, Standard Statistics estimated that earnings in the capital goods industries were up about 80%, in the consumer industries, about 40%. Bread & Meat-Standard Brands, Inc. (Fleischmann's Yeast, Royal Baking Powder, Chase & Sanborn Coffee) made $14,727,000 compared to a satisfying $12,744,000 in 1935. Ward Baking Corp. made...
Therefore the appointment of Mr. James M. Landis, at the age of thirty-seven, as dean is of the widest interest. There will be general agreement, we are confident, that President Conant and the Board of Overseers could not have made a happier choice. There were many worried faces in Wall Street when to this earnest young professor was assigned the task of helping to tame the Stock Exchange. There could be no question of the adequacy of his background of learning or of the keen edge of his mind. He had been called the most brilliant student at Harvard...
...fool for not selling to Kaiser Wilhelm II at a stiff price the right to let German troops peaceably cross Belgium to attack France. Whether His Majesty in any way now shares this view was entirely undisclosed last week, but in Antwerp especially pleased Flemings opined with widest smiles on their broad faces, "Our new King is no fool...
...Jooss to go touring, although his dancers still needed more training. The troupe gained grace and prestige with the addition of Hans Zuellig, 22-year-old Swiss (The Big City) and pretty Noelle de Mosa, 19, a Java-born Dutch baroness. Both conform to the Jooss type, employ the widest and most theatrical use of pantomime...