Word: adventism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eugene Meyer took him to Washington, and in the scrambled days of Mr. Hoover's exit and Mr. Roosevelt's advent, alert young Lawyer Corcoran made himself extremely useful as a personnel man to staff the new administrative agencies with legal talent. For this he was equipped by having run a placement bureau for Harvard Law graduates. Washington became full, and still is, of his "boys," who not only get work done the way he wants it but constitute an argus-eyed personal intelligence service. He particularly delights in drafting able sons of Tory fathers and infecting them...
...been putting all his reputation and energy. "It will not spin and it will not stall. . . . With only an hour or two of instruction any average person (even the intelligentsia) can fly our ship. . . . A development that should go down in history as the greatest aviation contribution since the advent of the Wright Brothers." But Frank Hawks will not get his year's subscription: he had taken his last flight, suffered his final crash...
Bank Debits (withdrawals from individual checking accounts in 274 cities). With the advent of Depression II, bank debits slumped at once as people tightened their purse strings. The total touched bottom in February. Subsequent figures, charted with seasonal allowances, show that since early March public buying has held at a fairly even pace. Last week's bank debits were $6,850,000, 18% under a year ago but the same as the previous week. Significance: though production of goods is still dropping, buying has apparently steadied-an optimistic sign...
...this 30-mile, largely vertical strip along the Italian-Austrian border was part of the secret deal which in 1915 brought the Kingdom of Italy into the World War against her former Central Powers allies. No minorities treaty was signed by Italy, but until minority-hating Fascism's advent there was little oppression of the German population. In 1923 a determined program of oppressive "Italianization" was inaugurated. In the district's schools only Italian teachers conducting lessons in Italian were allowed. Germanic names were ordered Italianized. Until 1936 German could not be spoken publicly. No German secret society...
From Columbus until the World War the American people got most of their amusement informally from each other. It was only upon the advent of the Great Boom that the spelling bee and the guitar on the front porch were routed by the billion-dollar entertainment industry of radio and the movies. When, four years ago. "Major" Edward Bowes put on his amateur shows, they were a radio novelty. But this season audience participation in radio has become radio's most pronounced program trend. The high cost of stars, dearth of headline talent and Depression II have all united...