Word: boom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the ballot, a rejection, which, judging from the quality of the other contestants, hardly speaks well for their qualifications. The most promising of the Republicans is Malcolm E. Nichols '99, whose supporters hail him as the new Messiah chiefly because he was able to reduce taxes in the boom years of 1926 to 1929. Indeed his lieutenants are handing out literature to show how low the tax rate was in these years, quite oblivious of the fact that falling property valuations renders this evidence somewhat questionable...
...property went to his wife. Suits to break the will were begun in Ireland, in Florida, in New York. Mrs. Croker soon developed a passion for litigation, before long was involved in an incredibly complicated tangle of lawsuits. Under the hands of lawyers the vast estate-during Florida boom years the waterfront property was valued at $10,000,000-withered. Pressed for cash, she mortgaged the prodigious Wigwam as well as her Irish castle...
Whistle Everybody whistle loudly as possible. Then: "Boom" three "rahs" and "team...
...farmer's hearts. Earle, by birth and rearing a political carbon copy of Roosevelt, has neither the former's personality, ability nor integrity. His labor record in Pennsylvania discloses an opportunist of the first water, and an opportunist who has much to learn. To start a third term boom three years and five months before such an issue becomes pressing is the work of a bungler and reveals that Earle probably never passed his entrance examinations to the Roosevelt-Farley school for political moppets...
...party. Two months ago, Ontario's Premier, the Hon. Mitchell Frederick ("Mitch") Hepburn, self-styled C. I. O.-hater and loud-mouthed critic of President Roosevelt, decided to trust his political fate to the favorable reaction sweeping over his Province as a result of an industrial boom, called for a general election...