Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But it was in another sense that the presidential political weakness was even more hurtful to Republicans. In fact, Dwight Eisenhower wrote a good, constructive record in 1958. Yet the widespread impression remained of a dispirited, drifting Administration. That impression first took real form back in 1957, when Ike hemmed...
Hours before the newspapers were ready to concede anything, Minnesota's )ouncy senior Democratic Senator, Hubert Horatio Humphrey strode into the headquarters of the Democratic-Farmer- Labor Party in Minneapolis to congratulate Five-Term Congressman Eugene McCarthy for winning Minnesota's second senate seat. Humphrey knew his voters...
The U.S. expatriates of the '20s clung to Paris as long as their money-or their parents' money-held out against the Depression. Today, in duffel coats and beards, a new generation of expatriates throngs Le Select and Les Deux Magots. But a sizable number of the U.S...
¶ "The Danish landscape is fat with a mild, monotonous beauty. The mentality is solid, calm and apparently healthy. But the psychical monotony in a strong mind creates depression. Remember that the inhabitants of these countries in olden days set out on the high seas as rough pirates."
Recession: Even as the U.S. began pulling out of its recession last spring, Democrats still made hay by labeling the G.O.P. as the Depression Party. But by last week, with signs of returned prosperity plain on all sides, the economic issue no longer cut so sharply into Republican chances. Thus...