Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stocky, cheerful W. O. Hodges, 45, was sheriff of Denton County (pop. 41,365), Texas for only four years, but he died last week a famous man. Before taking office, Hodges was just an ordinary sort of fellow; he grew up in a little cow town named Aubrey, spent a...
¶ In a published article, De Gasperi had written: "We must shake off our indolence and sense of depression . . . The lack of a solid majority has so far compelled this government, no matter how friendly, to ask for support from both the opportunist Right and the demagogic Left." Aside from...
AS 1953 began, many economic prophets, both abroad and at home, publicly predicted an early U.S. recession or depression. But by year's end, despite the soothsayers' continuing gloom, the facts were plain: instead of a slump, the U.S. had racked up the greatest business year on record...
As for U.S. fear of a depression, Stevenson suggested that a depression, if it materialized, would be unnecessary and "man-made," the Democrats having already proved that "Americans could master their own economic destiny." He closed by indulging in a luxury that was long the privilege of the G.O.P.-visualizing...
Five-Time Winner. Dissatisfaction with "merely printing the news" has brought the P-D and its staffers eleven Pulitzer Prizes. Even though the prizes were started in 1917 under the will of the P-D's founder, few newspapermen ever complain that favoritism is involved, since the paper'...