Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Now reform is no longer an issue. Councillors opposed to Atkinson's immediate appointment feel that the city should start making long-range plans: a capital finance program, extensive building, and gradual change in the school system. They feel that the manager has been negligent in this. Atkinson has been...
"I'm Going to Yale." Legend has it that Carey Estes Kefauver was a poor-but-honest youngster raised in a rough Tennessee mountain cabin. This is just a legend. The Kefauvers were a branch of one of the first families of Madisonville. Tenn., a small (pop. 1,487...
Peters had his downs as well as his ups. Revolutionary forces, considering any yanqui fair game, looted him freely. The depression of the 1930s hit him hard. In 1934, President Cardenas' land-reform program expropriated most of his holdings. Said Peters, philosophically: "The people need the land more than...
"Civil Wrongs." In 54-year-old Bachelor Russell, the Southern Democrats have an able, experienced, respected candidate. One of 13 children of a Georgia judge, he was elected to the state general assembly on his 23rd birthday, two years after he had graduated from the University of Georgia law school...
An M.I.T. graduate who got his start in the Depression washing kettles for the Campbell Soup Co., Bunker moved to the Wilson meat-packing company as an engineer in 1934, did a stint as head of the industrial engineering department, and became manufacturing vice president for the Kroger Co. Then...