Word: 1870s
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1870s, a Cassandra appeared on this happy scene in the person of Jay Gould, who dickered with Jefferson's soft-spoken businessmen about the possibility of putting through a branch of his Texas & Pacific Railroad to connect the city overland northeast with Texarkana and the T. & P. main line. Annoyed when the Jeffersonians would not talk his kind of turkey, the black-whiskered railroad baron clapped on his plug hat and walked out croaking a curse on the whole pack of them: "Bats will roost in your belfries, trees thrust branches through mouldering buildings, grass grow in your streets...
...Noyes, who seldom draws his historical parallels from any period later than the 1870s, balanced his explanation for last week's bullishness not on the possibilities of an inflationary Congress (see p. 12) but on the "not at all ungrounded belief that this period's recovery from depression has pursued the general path marked out by previous experience...