Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made by his predecessors. I feel that I as the daughter of Mr. William H. Woodin must go to bat for a great American who gave his life for his country and now cannot speak for himself. The events and history of the late 1920s and of the early 1930s prove, I am sure, the worthiness of the former Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin. Furthermore, Mr. Roosevelt had known my father for many years and had great confidence in his reports and criticisms of financial and banking conditions both here and abroad. Mr. Roosevelt appreciated the services...
...name, other times in cooperation with such men as Maximino Avila Camacho, the brother of onetime (1940-46) President Manuel Avila Camacho. When the great expropriator, President Lázaro Cárdenas, began casting covetous eyes at some of Jenkins' sugar land in the late 1930s, Jenkins shrewdly gave the land to Cÿrdenas as a gift. Later Jenkins told a friend, "I came out on top. I still get my sugar from the same land because I finance the peasants' crops...
Frankie never did get through, but he wasn't kidding. Hollywood was more closely involved with the 1960 election than with any since the politically conscious 1930s. On the Republican side, Actor George Murphy was often called on to warm up audiences for Nixon, and Nixon's final four-hour telethon involved answering questions fed to him by Lloyd Nolan and Robert Young. On the Democratic side, Sinatra's Clan (mercifully kept out of public sight most of the time) had a brocade-vested interest in the election because of Actor Peter Lawford's marriage...
...commentator, whose obsessive orientalism led to his dismissal from NBC in 1944 because he demanded that U.S. put Asia first on list of wartime targets (rather than Europe); in the collision of his auto with a train; near Guadalajara, Mexico. A prescient analyst of Far East developments in the 1930s. Close predicted Japanese war aims and the rise of Red China. In the 1940s he helped organize reactionary American Action, Inc., bitterly opposed the U.N. ("All this idealism is the bunk...
...wove it into the strident and monumental style of the Ode, which to his mind marks "the end of the first period of my work." A later period was inspired by Cop land's feeling that the American composer was losing touch with his public. In the late 1930s he began to write his often criticized "popular-style" music, typified by his raucously percussioned, slickly orchestrated El Salón México and by his scores for films (Of Mice and Men), radio (Saga of the Prairie) and ballet (Billy...