Word: crested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right or wrong road, he has wheeled Harvard into a central portion of the public upon matters that concerned the layman as much eye. His handling of the Tercentenary, his action as the student--all of which has won commendation from the press, have shot Harvard up to the crest achieved by Eliot. At this meeting, then, President Conant will see the reaction of alumni at first hand, and like a good newspaperman he will speak the right kind and amount of information to make that reaction favorable...
Riding the crest of his legislative popularity last week, Mr. Lapointe proposed to go the League Against War & Fascism one better by founding a League of All Canadian Citizens to Fight Communism, Fascism and All Other Subversive Movements. As the parliamentary overture to this project, Minister of Justice Lapointe keynoted in the House of Commons: "I am a strong believer in the British way of administering justice. I believe in the majesty and equality of the law and I believe Canadian citizens of all classes who believe in peace and order should join hands with a view to the preservation...
Furthermore, a quick glance at the charts showed that the great bull bond market of the 1920s turned its crest early in 1928 when the real "boom" still had a year and a half to run. But even if bond buyers overlooked that last week, they could not, and did not, overlook two ominous signals from Washington. One was President Roosevelt's observation in his fireside talk that "the dangers of 1929 are again becoming possible, not this week or month but within a year or two." The other signal was that the last official caller at the White...
...simple way for it to stay out of the next one was to keep its trade and money at home when the fighting began. Steamed up by the Millis book and FORTUNE'S "Arms and the Men" (munitions-makers), the Senate peacemen got their start on the crest of the Italo-Ethiopian war scare. Whooped through Congress was a temporary resolution banning sale of U. S. arms to nations at war, empowering the President to forbid U. S. citizens to travel on belligerents' boats (TIME, Sept...
Saddest of all was Louisville, Ky. which has virtually no hills. Three-fourths of the city, at flood crest, was inundated. Its business and residential districts alike were in water, its Negro shanties and mansions of the rich. Its electricity was off, its power-station partly submerged in the yellow flood. Over 230,000 Louisville people were homeless, at least 200 dead (no official figures), few of them by drowning, most from exposure. Property loss was estimated...