Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Depression washed out what little he had made in the '20s by buying war-surplus ships for charter, and a shipboard explosion left him with a painful back injury similar to President Kennedy's (it was cured in a risky operation a decade ago). In the mid-1930s, as the shipping market grew stronger, Ludwig broke through with a novel financing plan: he persuaded Manhattan banks to back his purchase of dry-cargo ships, then converted them into tankers and chartered them to oil companies, using the charter contracts as collateral for the loans. Ludwig built...
...from nuclear fallout (What Have They Done to the Rain?) and the American Medical Association ("We really love to stitch/ The diseases of the rich"), to direct-digit dialing ("560 million, 900,000 more, 137, extension 24"). But not since labor's big national organizing drive of the 1930s, when nearly everyone in the country knew at least a few lines of We Shall Not Be Moved, has there been such an outpouring of original songs as has been engendered by the racial problem...
Died. Harold ("Pop") Nathan, 83, holder of the FBI's No. 2 badge and J. Edgar Hoover's right-hand man during the gang-busting 1930s, a small, owl-eyed pipe smoker who looked more like a bookkeeper than the top cop who cracked down on the Black Hand extortion ring, the Weyerhaeuser kidnapers, and the slayers of Mobster Frank Nash; after a long illness; in San Francisco...
...Capitol Hill is not so much Republican unity as Democratic disunity. There are lopsided Democratic majorities in both houses: 67 to 33 in the Senate and 256 to 178 in the House (one seat, last held by a Democrat, is vacant). Not since the Democratic high tide in the 1930s has a President enjoyed such a huge numerical advantage in Congress...
...limp and a nervous tic when he speaks-which does not keep him from speaking often and abrasively. No stranger to the Russians, he attended two previous Moscow meetings on the split-in 1957 and in 1960. A veteran of Mao's Long March to Yenan in the 1930s, Teng came to prominence as a political commissar in the army, since 1952 has risen to a place among the top four or five men in Red China's hierarchy...