Word: camped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...standard will be abandoned. At one time the storms of last week seemed about to rock the boat and there are signs of a typhoon in the offing. This question of the effect of abandonment on our markets has split the experts into two distinct schools of thought. One camp maintains that it will be the starting gun for an international inflation race and that commodities and stocks will rise abruptly. The other group holds that it will be a severe economic shock and result in declines because our favorable export trade is dependent on a cheap dollar, which will...
...days he had two hands. Year after his Viennese debut came the War. Like any loyal 25-year-old Austrian, he went off to fight. On the way to the Russian frontier his right arm was wounded. He lost consciousness, woke up to find himself in a Russian prison camp. He was shunted about behind the lines, spent six months in Siberia before his group was exchanged for Russian prisoners in Austria...
These practical psychologists who know how to appeal to the mob that directs the destiny of the nation are not found in any one political camp but exist in every party, in every town, in every precinct. Tuesday's election as all previous elections have demonstrated the efficacy of slogans, dramatic oratory, and machine tactics. Can the youth that aspires to public office in the future battle these effectively? Some say they will use these means only as a way to gain a position in which they may promulgate the reforms that are so necessary. But it is a polluted...
...fiery leader of "Jayhawkers," those bellicose sons of the Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience so he can mount the rostrum and persuade the good folk to elect him Kansas' first Senator in 1861. He is elected, goes thoroughly jingo when the first shell bursts over Fort Sumter, becomes chairman of the Military Affairs Committee. Then, after three years, "Ace" is sickened...
...first nine months of 1934 than in the same period last year. Curtis Publishing Co. had an exceedingly rosy third-quarter report, showing net profits up 300%?. This fact was promptly picked up by a devoted supporter of President Roosevelt and hurled back into the Satevepost's camp. The New Dealer was Publisher Julius David Stern of the New York Post, which formerly belonged to Curtis. Last fortnight Publisher Stern wrote a sarcastic editorial, alternating choice paragraphs from the Curtis report with jittery excerpts from the Satevepost's jittery editorials...