Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven seconds, which seemed like an eternity, was the actual launching time. Enormous chains slowed the Normandie lest she slide too far and crash into a cement wall at the other end of her basin. She did not crash. St. Nazaire went wild with joy. St. Nazaire workmen will be busy for another 18 months installing the innards of the Normandie...
Stockholm police arrested Brother Torsten Kreuger last month when the receivers for Kreuger & Toll sued him for more than $1,000,000 in cash and securities which he was alleged to have received from Scoundrel Ivar some six months before the crash. It was Brother Torsten who flew to Paris and secured custody of Brother Ivar's body without an autopsy being performed. At that time Brother Torsten had the diplomatic rank of a Swedish consul general, lived far more lavishly in Stockholm than Brother Ivar whom Swedes called "The Man Who Never Gambles...
...opening concert last week nothing affected the audience so deeply as Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration which Conductor Artur Rodzinski placed on the program as a memorial to Patron Clark's son, William Andrews III, who was killed last spring in an airplane crash. The orchestra, the audience knew, was Clark's second son. He founded it in 1919, trailed it on its tours, in true paternal fashion made no complaint even when it ran into debt last year to the tune...
...feeling there was little politically new in the President's Cleveland address. His refrain about the Depression: "Let no man say it could not have been worse." The President fought back the Democratic charge that the U. S. and its stock speculations were responsible for the 1929 crash, stuck doggedly to his claim that worldwide forces were to blame. He insisted Governor Roosevelt* had wilfully ignored such factors as ''the greatest war in history . . . the killing or incapacitating of 40,000,000 of the best youth of the earth . . . the harsh treaties which ended...
With a liberal sprinkling of President Hoover's rosiest 1928 quotations. Speaker Garner's argument took this tack: The 1929 crash and subsequent Depression hit the U. S. first, did not. as Republicans claim, come from abroad. The economic collapse developed from domestic folly and the notion that prosperity was about to "abolish poverty." For two years President Hoover minimized Federal deficits, missed his guess as to their total size by about four billion dollars. Public distrust of Treasury policy was at the root of last winter's panic. The President was two years late getting around...