Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Great Depression change Merrill's views? Quite the contrary. The Crash proved that people should have listened to him instead of to those charlatans who encouraged investors to borrow so heavily and to speculate so wildly. And if Americans had soured on the market by the end of the 1930s--and how could they not as the Dow Jones average lost 60% of its value and people came to see how rotten the game had been--Merrill eventually came to the conclusion that someone would have to rekindle the country's faith in the market. He turned to the only...
...billion to Holocaust survivors. Former Bosnian leaders are facing international tribunals for crimes against humanity. And Jiang Zemin, his own human rights violations notwithstanding, has embarked this week on his first state visit to Japan, demanding written apologies from the Japanese government for its brutality in China during the 1930s and '40s-an apology that Japan has already issued to South Korea. But what's really behind this drive for apologies and punishments? Is it a quest for justice, or revenge...
...their successes could not shield him fully from the discrimination endemic to the South in the 1930s...
Looking to escape the collegiate mayham of Harvard Yale? India Song, a play by Marguerite Duras about love, memory, loss and colonialism in 1930s Calcutta goes up this Thursday at the Loeb Ex. The show runs through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are free and can be picked up at the Loeb...
DIED. WINNIE JUDD, 93, who as a young secretary got off a train with two dead bodies stuffed in her luggage, triggering the sensational 1930s trial that dubbed her the "trunk murderess"; in Phoenix, Ariz. A sanity hearing spared her the death penalty and sent her packing to an Arizona hospital for three decades. Later judged sane, she went to prison, and was released...