Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower, at his midweek press conference, tied the "recession" tag to the economy for the first time since droop set in last autumn (and once even slipped into calling it a "depression"). Added the Labor Department: the total of laid-off workers drawing unemployment-compensation checks hit 3,130...
The man whom Ben Hecht dubbed "The White Fang" ran Columbia as if he were the master of an ancient trireme. He had no illusions about his popularity-and cared less. "If you print anything good about me," he once told a reporter, "nobody will believe it." He got the...
Top charge of the week and of the upcoming campaign was that Republicans had rocked the U.S. with an economic decline. Unanimously, the Democratic National Committee voted to view the decline henceforth as no recession, but a fullscale, vote-shaking depression. Harking back to an effective 1932 Democratic pitch, the...
Glass-Eyed Bankers. Said he to 3,000 Democrats at a $100-a-plate dinner in his honor: "There are four or five million men and women looking for work, and millions more working only part-time . . . the farmers are told to get off the land and join the ranks...
For all the simulated gaiety and affection that they showed their customers, 18 were frigid with them, and ten were incapable of orgasm in any relationship. Some of the less frigid still needed debasement to achieve satisfaction: "I can only be excited by a man who despises me." All the...