Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Potent Arguments. In his $600,000 home on Miami Beach's Biscayne Bay, Wolfson likes to pore over financial statements, find a company that is worth a lot more than the price of its stock. When he does, he goes after it. Montgomery Ward is just that kind of...
Crooked Fence. Said he: "Some of them saw a great inflation . . . They have been proved wrong. Others then started preaching depression, depression." The President was reminded of Lincoln's story of "a farmer [who] built a fence that was so crooked that every time a pig bored a hole...
Now." said Ike. "these economic prophets of doom have been building up a lot of fences of what they called economic statistics. But . . . they built them so crookedly that every time they bored through them, .they came out on the side of pessimism and depression ... I think all of us...
Meek was satisfied. Ike had not used his name, but the President seldom does use a candidate's name. And if the President's endorsement had been less than warmhearted, the President's attack was aimed directly at a target Illinois voters could identify. Meek's...
Their assets are obvious: a popular President; most of the money, most of the newspapers, tax cuts and above all, no war and no depression. [The Democrats] are still on the defensive on the Communists-in-government issue, despite Senator McCarthy's slippage. [But] the Democrats have some advantages...