Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard for some time to come; for what arc lights there are have been virtually relegated to the limbo of superannuation from which they are not likely to emerge for a few years. And so the man who likes his football with a proper amount of preface and aftermath is still in style. Whether the overemphasis on the preface and the virtual elimination of the aftermath can be in any way compensated for, is a question which will probably hold the new system in abeyance until its satisfactory solution...
North Carolina's labor troubles were by no means confined to the Communist-led strike at Gastonia and its aftermath, the Charlotte murder trial (see above). At the Blue Ridge foothill town of Marion, an-other textile strike, directed by the conservative United Textile Workers of America, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, "went rough" last week, led to the summoning of National Guardsmen...
...Florida last fortnight 25 banks failed. Causes: 1) Halterophora capitata; 2) aftermath of punctured land-booms; 3) gossip. Relative importance of these causes was difficult to determine. It appeared, however, that banks heavily laden with uncollectable land-boom notes found their debtors further handicapped by activities of Halterophora capitata. Exaggeration of conditions then produced disastrous bank runs. Deposits in the closed banks totaled more than...
Land Boom. The land boom aftermath consists in the principal of notes, made in boom times, falling due and not being paid. Frozen assets in the shape of uncollectable paper have put many a Florida bank in a tight position...
...luncheon table.* After that occasion there was such a socio-political commotion that President Roosevelt thought it best to explain that Booker T. Washington had called while the President was just finishing his lunch and had been invited into the dining room "to save time." No such aftermath followed Mrs. De Priest's visit. In fact, almost before Washington started buzzing this time, George Akerson, the President's Secretary, issued a statement saying...