Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-integrated Jewish group, had four nights of window smashing, synagogue burning and looting to a refrain of anti-Jewish slogans. There, at least 100 shop windows were broken, mostly by adolescents; sometimes crowds as large as 2,000 looked on, did nothing except to give an occasional cheer. This passive approval, to the horrified Manchester Guardian, "was the ugliest aspect...
...prepare for the arrival of a home-town girl-Frances Hutt Dewey. The rickety old St. James Hotel was freshly scrubbed. Waitresses and porters sweated in new uniforms; the best suite had been completely done over by a local furniture store. At the Frisco station a crowd gathered to cheer Frances and her husband. New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
...after a world's record run of 3,213 consecutive Broadway performances. At the final curtain the audience and cast reverently sang Auld Lang Syne. Actors wept in their dressing rooms (only one had another job lined up). An ex-member of the cast failed to spread much cheer with a telegram: "HEAR THE STATUE OF LIBERTY GOES NEXT...
...waiting crowd had something to cheer about. The Constitution, modeled on the U.S.'s, is the hemisphere's most leftist. It provides specific guarantees for labor: the right to strike, paid vacations, pay for Sunday work, pensions, dismissal bonuses, some profit-sharing. Everyone is guaranteed the right to education, employment and health insurance. The state is given an important role in planning a national economy. The right of private property is recognized and protected; while monopoly is forbidden, capital is to be entitled to a fair return; employer associations are permitted...
...word "recession" appeared hardly at all in the news last week. In its place there were words of cheer. Retail sales in the first six months of 1947 reached a record high of approximately $51,377,000,000, more than in any full year before 1941. The U.S. Employment Service noted that employment was up to a new record of 58,300,000. It estimated that seasonal employment would boost the total to 59,300,000 by September. With prospects of industrial peace ahead, the stock market kept on advancing. The Dow-Jones industrial averages were up 4.43 points...