Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At 68, ill of diabetes, Landlord Worthing was taken to a hospital, told that one of his legs must be amputated. As he lay waiting for the operation, he looked back over a life that had led from college to a job as signal design engineer for the Southern Pacific...
Divorced from Porter in 1941, Sylvia is now married to G. Sumner Collins, promotion manager of the New York Journal-American. At 44, she is a handsome woman with flashing brown eyes, makes the most of her charm and social position in covering her financial beat. At a dinner party...
The Class of 1933, the depression class, will present the University with a record-breaking quarter century class gift of $425,000 this afternoon at the Harvard Alumni Association meeting.
Also in the fall of 1931 the nation had begun to take the depression seriously, despite the cheerful optimism of the Great Engineer. The Student Council, in an attempt to raise money for the unemployed, sponsored a series of collections at home football games. The $7,000 collected at the...
Depression despair was abated in December as President Lowell celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. Almost a year later, however, the College was saddened when it was announced that Charles Townsend Copeland, the beloved Copey, was moving from his Hollis 15 suite to a new home on Concord Avenue in Cambridge...