Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graybar Building and tends as strictly and shrewdly to A. & P. finances as he did when, as a plump boy of 15, he counted A. & P. money in the cashier's cage on Vesey Street. In his homely way he decided that things were going too fast in the 20s. In 1927, he put his heavy foot down and ordered A. & P. to make no leases for over one year ahead. That policy saved his company millions of dollars in Depression...
...built a public market on upper Broadway but it was not a financial success. The Astor policy with real estate had always been to buy, hold for a rise and sell at a profit but put up no improvements. Vincent Astor, during the booming '20s, sold a great deal of property. On onetime Astor land now stands Manhattan's Paramount Building, its Longacre Building, half of its Empire State Building and many another. But Vincent Astor broke family tradition by improving Astor property. He put up $10,000,000 worth of buildings, modernized many old ones, became proud...
Zelda Fitzgerald loved motion and dance. For a while she studied in Paris under Maria Egarova, onetime ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg. But she was in her middle 20s, too old to become a good ballet dancer. She left school, recording her adventures in a thinly disguised autobiography, Save Me the Waltz. She also began to paint seriously...
...work for which their superiors in the spotlight get the credit. Some are assistant professors with new economic theories to administer. Others are brilliant young lawyers who actually write the bills which the President sends to Congress as part of his program. Many of them are in their '20s and most of them are called "the hot dog boys" because they are disciples of Felix Frankfurter. Because of their intolerant zeal for drastic action, because of their youthful enthusiasm for largescale reform, they exert a potent, if nonpolitical, influence in shaping the whole character of the Roosevelt Administration. Political...