Word: booms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outside of Chicago, because few non-Chicagoans realize that Chicago's "better element" have not only tolerance but affection for Mayor Thompson; political comment everywhere because Mayor Thompson, undoubted controller of the Illinois delegation to the Republican Convention, has been reputed an enemy of the Dawes-Lowden presidential boom...
...facts: 1) Japan's unfavorable foreign trade balance has been sharply reduced by wise retrenchment; 2) Money has grown sufficiently plentiful in Tokyo so that large issues of securities are again being placed there, notably the recent Osaka Municipal Loan; 3) Tourist spending in Japan is on the boom; 4) Japanese interests in Manchuria are prospering under the firm if iniquitous rule of Marshal Chang...
...most ominous German trend, from the standpoint of reparations, continues to be the large foreign loans being made to German states and municipalities. Over 3,950,000,000 gold marks ($940,100,000) of such liabilities are outstanding, and the funds which they represent have produced conditions bordering on "boom prosperity" in some areas. Agent Gilbert sternly warned that under Article 248 of the Treaty of Versailles the repayment of such loans is made secondary to and contingent upon the prompt payment of reparations. He concluded: "The States and communes have played a major part in the gen eral tendency...
...Curtis. The only Republican prior to Senator Willis who had announced his candidacy was short, swart, smiling Charles Curtis, the Indian-blooded Senator from Kansas (TIME, Nov. 7). Mr. Curtis last week stuck to his job as G. O Party leader in the Senate, letting circumstances alone change his boom from that of a remote compromise candidate to that of the second man in line for the support of the present Administration. The first boom buttons of the season appeared: "Curtis for President...
...Lowden, in Washington last week, held a press reception and said: 1) that his friends were responsible for his boom, not he; 2) that farm relief was his chief aim in political life; 3) "I stand squarely with President Coolidge" on Prohibion...