Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Wagner who will write his 1936 platform; with John L. Lewis, backer of Labor's Nonpartisan League to re-elect Roosevelt, Democratic Chairman Farley, Governors Davey of pivotal Ohio and McNutt of pivotal Indiana, with AAAd-ministrator Davis who lately returned from a trip to Europe to begin a grand tour of the farm states to bind farmers to the New Deal...
...letter to Clements last September, Dr. Townsend wrote: "I tell you, Old Fellow, the way for us to lick the stuffing out of the old parties is to become militant and go after them hammer and tongs for being totally incompetent, as we know they are. . . . We should begin ... to talk about the 'Townsend Party,' not wait in the foolish hope that one of the old groups will adopt us. If they do, they will treat us like poor adopted trash. To hell with them...
...been sobered by the awful power of simultaneous possession of the Presidency and Congress. It was Pat Harrison's destiny to be a senior Senator on the third occasion. No politician in memory has undergone so profound and startling a metamorphosis. As if W. C. Fields were to begin playing Othello, Senator Harrison has become a legislative drudge...
...cribs in pre-Raphaelite style, while the girls amazed their miner customers by screaming "Ut-terly utter!" Leadville, Colo, tried to frighten Oscar off with threatening letters, but nothing happened to him when he went there. When Griggsville, Kans. wired him an invitation to lecture on esthetics, he replied: "Begin by changing the name of your town." His tour netted Oscar ?1,200, but his expenses came to nearly that. And he admitted that he had failed to convert the sprawling, striving, ugly U. S. to the cult of beauty. The U. S. was more interested in the killing...
...typical real-estate boom a housing shortage is the first stage. Rents rise higher & higher. People begin to buy houses for speculation, not for use. As rentals continue to climb, it becomes more profitable to build than to buy and residential building starts to boom-the second phase. Feeding on itself, the boom creates demand for additional office space and commercial buildings, the third and final phase of a great boom. "Soon after the peak in commercial building is reached, the feverish activity of the boom will subside," says Mr. Wenzlick. "This period is probably ten years distant. Vacancies will...