Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make speeches just a year ago, in defense of the Administration after the arrival of Depression II. The word was misleading. What the Janizaries were really talking about was "oligo-poly"-selling by a few-based on statistical studies of busy-brained Economist Leon Henderson, who predicted the crash of October 1937 the spring before. He contended then that greedy Business, by raising prices too soon and too fast, would deflate the recovery boomlet of 1936-37. If the executive wing of TNEC has a preconceived case to prove and to act upon with legislation many months hence, this...
...barbarians were really pretty tough. The emperors whom Gibbon dismissed as weaklings were really doing their best; the barbarian generals were smart men-besides, Rome was a hard city to defend. So in Robert Graves's books Rome falls with a sigh rather than with the sonorous crash that Gibbon heard, falls slowly, painfully, wearily, hopelessly, unaware to the last that she is falling...
Died. Lieutenant Lansing C. ("Denny") Holden, 42, famed World War flying ace. soldier of fortune, archeologist, architect and Technicolor expert; when a New York National Guard plane crashed near Sparta, Tenn. Also killed in the crash was another famed War flier, Lieutenant Raymond W. Krout...
Lieut. Colonel Ramón Franco, 42-year-old brother of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, was killed last week in a Rightist seaplane crash off Majorca. Long before the world had heard of brother Francisco, dashing, sometimes revolutionary aviator Ramón had made headlines. In 1926 he made the first flight from Europe to South America. Later he took part in several rash, poorly timed, badly organized plots against Alfonso XIII. Though respected by some Spanish Republicans, the hard-&-fast Leftist invariably suspected him of exhibitionism...
...head of the State Drivers License Bureau; the wife and brother of Albuquerque's postmaster; the police chief of Las Vegas and his brother; Joe Martinez, secretary to Senator Chavez, the New Dealer whom Jim Farley got appointed after Senator Bronson Cutting was killed in an air crash. Swart, Spanish-blooded poor-but-proud Senator Dennis Chavez, who got credit for most of the Federal funds obtained for New Mexico, also beheld four of his close relatives indicted: his son-in-law, Assistant U. S. Attorney Stanley W. P. Miller; his cousin, Salamon Chavez; his sister, Mrs. Anita Tafoya...