Word: 1930s
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VIVIAN GORNICK MUST have been a precocious child. By the age of five she had adopted a world view; unfortunately she kept it intact through four decades. Born during the mid-1930s in a Jewish enclave of the Bronx, Gornick identified with her father's working class bonds long before she recognized the significance of her religion or sex. While her more orthodox peers studied the Commandments, she memorized the basic formulae for good and evil: "Labor=Socialism, Capital=Nationalism...
...capital budget in the U.S., a slightly higher proportion than in past years. By next year's end it will add 30,000 jobs to its domestic employment rolls, which is particularly pleasing to the chairman, who was unemployed for a year during the Depression 1930s. Says Murphy, in the flat tones of Chicago, where he grew up: "When I see the magnitude of our spending, I can't understand why the national figures for capital investment don't show more of an upward tilt...
DIED. Theresa Weld Blanchard, 84, who became America's first ladies' figure-skating champion in 1914, and won nine U.S. gold medals with Partner Nathaniel Niles during her reign as "Queen of the Ice" in the 1920s and 1930s; of cancer; in Boston. Rebelling against the constrained motions then expected even of free skaters in America, Blanchard pioneered a more sweeping international style and was often marked down by judges for her "unladylike" loops and swoops. She founded Skating magazine and served as its editor for 40 years...
...homes and hospitals all along. But we've got to draw the line somewhere." With the National Guard and state police escorting coal trucks, confrontations became riskier. "I'm afraid we may see a move to violence," said one U.M.W. official in Washington. "We may see the 1930s again. These miners have fought the Army before...
MARRIED. Joan Bennett, 67, sultry movie siren of the 1930s and '40s, who starred in some 80 films (Father of the Bride, Careless Lady, Little Women) and the TV series Dark Shadows; and David Wilde, 60, a retired publisher, publicist and investor; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in White Plains...