Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that domestic businesses be shielded against import competition always become more strident during times of spreading unemployment. The real surprise is that despite the severity of the global recession, free traders so far have held the dikes successfully against the protectionist tide; nothing resembling the tariff wars of the 1930s has occurred. Import-limiting actions, as distinct from talk, have been few and scattered. For example, Finland now requires importers to post large bonds, and the Japanese have persuaded several trading partners to limit, voluntarily and temporarily, some shipments to Japan...
Died. Moe Howard, 78, last survivor of the original Three Stooges slapstick comedy team; of lung cancer; in Hollywood. His black bangs cropped as if his barber had used a chamber pot, Moe cheerfully assaulted colleagues Larry, Curly and Shemp through more than 200 1930s farces, whacking them with mallets, tweaking noses, kicking shins, and deftly delivering thousands of the two-fingered eye punches that became his trademark, and endeared him in the 1950s to the first generation of television children...
Singer Helen Reddy's sell out London concert, attracted Critic Kenneth Tynan, Actor Danny Kaye and scores of others, but Richardson turned into the star attraction as soon as Lord Harlech's 1930s jazz records began spinning. With his wife Anne away in the U.S. for a visit, the ambassador quickly stepped forward with the guest of honor and began to jitterbug, boogie and foxtrot his way around the dance floor. The British duly took note. Observed the London Evening Standard afterward: "Mr. Richardson has a particularly outstanding sense of rhythm and is an energetic and talented dancer...
...provided no large community of political artists. Swados published his first novel in 1955, when the Cold War was at its iciest, the United States was prosperous, and middle-class and professional people could be told that the working class was a figment of Communist propagandists' imaginations. In the 1930s, when large chunks of the middle class most writers came from and wrote for had joined most workers in protesting Depression hardship, opposing fascism and supporting the New Deal, many writers had moved Left. If they stayed there in the '50s they found themselves a little isolated and more alienated...
...radically molded by the places in which they work for others--according to one government study released last month, one out of four workers in small American businesses, those that employ 125 workers or fewer, suffers from an occupation-related disease--but where even the "proletarian literature" of the 1930s dealt more often with people from the lower middle class...