Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the 1890s to the 1930s, the Court was so concerned with the welfare of American business that it used the 14th Amendment mainly to protect corporations as "persons," striking down all sorts of state laws regulating business on the grounds that they violated "liberty of contract." New York was forbidden to set a ten-hour day for bakers; out went minimum-wage laws for women...
...wrote those lines in a prologue to Sermons and Soda-Water, a trio of novellas published in 1960, likes to think of himself as a social historian whose principal medium happens to be fiction. When Historian Allan Nevins said that no one could really understand the U.S. of the 1930s without reading O'Hara's novel Butterfield 8, the author took it as the handsome compliment it was intended to be. The journalist in O'Hara ever lurks just beneath the surface of the novelist; Butterfield 8, in fact, was a piece of reportorial fiction based...
General professionalization is measured by the number of men going to graduate school who do not become academics. This group has comprised about 60 percent of recent classes. In the late 1930s it was about 50 per cent of each class. This not too spectacular rise mainly reflects the greater number of men who take degrees in law and business administration to prepare for business careers...
...Limitless Fury." A soldier's son, De Gaulle grew up in Paris with an all-consuming love of country. "France," he decided in early youth, "cannot be France without greatness." As an army colonel in the 1930s, he was keenly aware of his country's disavowal of that destiny. Petty partisan squabbling and interminable changes of government kept France's defenses in a shambles. While Hitler armed to the teeth, the French staked all on their grande illusion, the Maginot Line. Risking his career, De Gaulle badgered his superiors to create a mechanized army capable of swift...
...pampas is being crosshatched by fences and boundary roads into smaller and smaller holdings. So, too, is the Midas-rich patrón of yesteryear giving way to hundreds of relatively small farmers and cattlemen who count themselves lucky to make a middle-class living. In the late 1930s, one-fifth of Argentina, or 139 million acres, belonged to just 2,000 families. Today, says Gustavo Pueyrredón, vice president of Argentina's stockbreeders' society, "the average farmholding in Buenos Aires province scarcely exceeds 2,000 acres...