Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To one who remembers most vividly the agony of the Great Depression, as well as the years of stupidity which preceded it, your March 11 review of The Age of Roosevelt was most interesting. Who wrote it? Herbert Hoover?
The more they observed him during his first months on the job as night janitor in 1951, the more the pupils and teachers of the Edwin Markham Elementary School in the Portland, Ore. school district began to realize that there was something special about shy, quiet Horace Bixby. Because of...
Of all the golden boys in the Golden Twenties, none glittered brighter than a fast-talking, fast-thinking young empire builder named Errett Lobban Cord. At one time or another, Cord had control of New York Shipbuilding, Stinson Aircraft, American Airways, and Auburn Automobile Co., which built the Cord car...
Harding & Missiles. Underlying the U.S.'s local preoccupations was some real news of a different sort: after years on end of living with crisis and talk of crisis, the U.S. has settled into a New Normalcy, unhaunted by fears that twitches abroad mean another world war or that economic...
Age of Jackson. The New Normalcy is not only the process of ensuring prosperity. It is learning to live with what is already here. The Depression-time rarity, the $20 bill engraved with the thin-lipped countenance of Andrew Jackson, has come to be at home in everybody's...