Word: booms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Always a staunch Republican, Collector Nichols appealed to many of the G. O. P. faction in Boston as Mayor Curley's term neared its end. The Nichols boom stated comparatively late, but by midsummer he appeared to be among the strongest mayoralty candidates among the large number then mentioned as possibilities...
...battle front in real estate remains, of course, Florida, where the boom is still in full swing; but there is indication that subsidiary fronts are or soon will be established elsewhere if present conditions continue for much longer. Long Island appears already as a likely spot. A few months ago a restricted but dramatic boom appeared at Rockaway, where real estate prices skyrocketed at the prospect of a shore development...
...large operators figure chiefly in the Long Island boom, but a little more encouragement from them may turn the Long Island real estate situation into a fine frenzy of speculation...
...first boom was Newton D. Baker. He appeared on the platform of Cleveland's Public Hall, scene of the Republican Convention two Junes ago. He made a little speech and then the Cleveland Symphony orchestra burst into music in one of the perennial civic efforts to make good music popular. This particular effort was marked by two unusual proceedings: 1) blocks of tickets were issued to each of Cleveland's numerous foreign elements (Cleveland's population is about 80% foreign born) ; 2) the program consisted of music by composers of ten different nationalities...
Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff, emphatic Russian, closed the concert with Tchaikowski's "1812 Overture," and as the strains of the "Marseillaise" and the Russian National anthem floated out in the final bars -Boom Boom! Boom!-siege guns they sounded-fired back stage and the smoke floated out over the audience. The multi-national multi-national multitude went mad applauding, and, of course, Conductor Sokoloff made a little speech...