Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Great Depression crept slowly westward during the fall of 1930, but great men were speaking of an upturn, and optimism still gripped the public mind. Black Thursday was a year old, Europe seemed to be heading for hell, and Carl Joachim Friedrich, then an assistant professor of Government, stated...
Depression Deepens
A year ago, when Anderson replaced hearty George Humphrey, it looked to some Republicans as though Treasury might have swapped rock salt for gelatin. Humphrey was categorical, authoritative (said a Cabinet member: "When George speaks, everybody listens"), and dogmatically orthodox. He even inspired last year's hard congressional attack...
Died. Juan Ramón Jiménez, 76, expatriate Spanish poet who won the 1956 Nobel prize for literature; of pneumonia; in San Juan, Puerto Rico. When the Nobel announcement came from Stockholm, it rattled the ice in U.S. literary tumblers because few readers had ever heard the name...
"This creation and stimulation of desire has put more people to work and, in turn, made their desires possible to fulfill. But what if this desire is gone? I will tell you. When a car becomes nothing more than transportation, when new clothes become nothing more than protection against weather...