Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A striking example showed up baldly in the "major issue" of the campaign. Still riding the ghost of the "Hoover Depression," Democrats have made much of unemployment in the U.S. in 1954. It is an economic fact that the Eisenhower Administration has been more successful than the Roosevelt or Truman...
In U.S. politics, most issues except war or a major depression are made, not born. The party in power has an obvious advantage in being able to frame and develop the issues. Almost without leaving their desks, the President and his Cabinet officers in State, Treasury and Defense could have...
"It consisted of 14 young instructors, one of whom had a trusted position within the party," he explained. "They apparently were motivated by the United States depression and the rise of Fascism. By 1939, most of the 14 had left the party, and only one continued to teach at Harvard...
In the 1945 decision that restricted Alcoa's further expansion, Federal Judge Learned Hand tried to set up a percentage chart. Said he: "[Over 90% of the market] is enough to constitute a monopoly; it is doubtful whether 60% or 64% would be enough, and certainly, 33% is not...
Perhaps, Dr. Lowenbach suggested to the Southern Psychiatric Association last week, the trick of "playing dead" may show that the opossum is even more beset than the average psychiatric patient by such traits as "severe anxiety, neurosis, depression, lack of initiative and recession into himself."