Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The present depression is a direct result of the monetary policy followed by the Eisenhower Administration, J.K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, and Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, asserted in a letter released today.
The failure of the Weimar Republic, Conant declared, was due to a failure of economic and political factors. The inflation of the early twenties, the depression of the thirties, the failure of parliamentary government, and the concentration of power and responsibility in a President unable to meet the crisis led...
The time was the early 1930s. Dust-parched, drought-wrung, a steady caravan of humans clattered west over U.S. 66. Piled high in antiquated jalopies and steaming trucks were the precious things of their lives: children, a tacky mattress or two, tattered blankets, a stick of old furniture, cooking utensils...
A stolid, dour lawyer, Adams reversed tradition by beginning as a moderate and moving to the left. On coming home from Oxford in 1925, he won his first seat in the legislature through the influence of a planter. But he was soon attacking the "dictatorship" of the landowners, and when...
The Insull family ran an enormous electric power empire in the 1920's. The disputed charges followed the collapse of the organization in the depression and include accusations of mail fraud and embezzlement.