Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scandals, which were revealed over such a long period that they are always vague. Then the Coolidge Prosperity Bandwagon gets rolling and sweeps all before its high pressure salesmanship and concentrated ballyton. The Florida boom is used as a preface to the Big Bull Market and its child the Crash, which is treated well, simply and understandably. The arrival of the new morality, along with its unwanted offspring the confession, magazines, tabloids, etc., is traced, and alcohol and Al receive their due share of space. The steady jeering of Mencken, Lewis, and the highbrows is allowed to echo through...
...should appreciate the makeup of Miscellany in the issue of May 23, when that department included news of the twin cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis-the only "twin cities" located in the same state. (St. Paul: ventriloquist arrested using his "dummies" in attempt to collect wages. Minneapolis: auto crash victim claims to be left with inferiority complex...
When a Hungarian military plane crashed at aerial maneuvers near Rome, Premier Mussolini took quick, expensive action to prevent a crack in the Italo-Hungarian entente. He despatched as a gift to the Hungarian Government a brand new Italian plane painted boldly with the words "Justice for Hungary!" Next he commanded that a memorial shaft be raised to the two Hungarian airmen who lost their lives in the crash, George Enders and Julius Bittay. Finally Italy's Dictator sent to each of the dead men's families in Hungary a present of 50,000 lire...
...week recess to allow Counsel William A. Gray and his investigators to prowl around Wall Street for more data, Senator Peter Norbeck's Banking & Currency Committee last week resumed hearings on the buying & selling practices of U. S. stock exchanges. Having heard a lot about post-crash short-selling (TIME, April 25. et seq.), the Committee now went back to the great pre-crash bull pools...
...Minneapolis, A. K. Johnson sued Mrs. Vera L. Ferrin for $65,000, alleging that she was responsible for an automobile crash which left him with an inferiority complex...