Word: 1930s
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Political fashions drift from left to right. The enthusiastic sectarian style of American communists during the 1930s and 1940s traveled with the neoconservatives when they washed ashore as immigrants to the land of conservatism during the 1970s and 1980s. The rallying cry of race-blind equal opportunity, which was of little interest to right-wingers during the heyday of the civil rights movement, was later taken as the right's own in the struggle over affirmative action. And now, having spent recent years diagnosing a virus of democracy they label "political correctness," some conservatives seem to be succumbing themselves...
What would happen to the U.S. economy if all its commercial banks suddenly closed their doors? Throughout most of American history, the answer would have been a disaster of epic proportions, akin to the Depression wrought by the chain-reaction bank failures in the early 1930s. But in 1993 the startling answer is that a shutdown by banks might be far from cataclysmic...
Growing up in the 1930s and 1940s in a small town on the outskirts of Vancouver, the three McArthur children did not know luxury. Their father worked as a grain inspector for the Canadian government. Their mother stayed home to raise the family...
During the 1930s, a steady stream of composers and performers fled Nazi Germany in the wake of Hitler's Kulturkampf. Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill, Arnold Schoenberg, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer and other purveyors of "degenerate art" found a safe haven in the U.S. Gentile and Jew alike, they contributed immeasurably to the development of music in America. But what of those not so lucky as to escape? What talents were consigned to the flames of the Holocaust? The fascinating and moving new CD Silenced Voices offers poignant witness to what was -- and what might have been...
...crimes of passion or accidental deaths. But crimes of passion, passion being what it is, are typically committed with whatever weapon is at hand, whether gun, kitchen knife, or claw hammer. In addition, the number of children under age 14 killed in firearms accidents has steadily decreased since the 1930s, while the number of guns in America has more than doubled during that same period...