Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Connecticut Democrats also nominated a candidate to run for McMahon's unexpired term: Hartford Congressman Abraham A. Ribicoff. The able, earnest son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, Ribicoff, who is 42, came out of University of Chicago Law School in the Depression, built a successful practice, went into politics, served...
THE GREAT DEPRESSION (503 pp.)-Herbert Hoover-Macmillan ($5).
One dark Thursday in October 1929, the hottest bull market in U.S. history caught fire, and in a matter of weeks $30 billion in paper stock values went up in smoke. As brokers jumped from their penthouses and amateur stock gamblers went to the wall, the U.S. began the calamitous...
Overnight, Herbert Hoover was turned into a scapegoat for the economic sins of a whole generation. Charles Michelson, the Democrats' razor-tongued publicity genius, pilloried him before millions as a hapless homunculus responsible for all the nation's ills. Disgruntled citizens called the dear departed boom the Hoover...
In this third and most important volume of his memoirs, telling of his ordeal, Hoover writes as a man in anguished earnest, a man whose pride of historical place has been irretrievably hurt. As Hoover sees it, he was far from being the helpless victim of uncontrollable economic forces. Though...