Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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*Graham's original $2,950,000 endowment drew so little revenue during Depression years that the foundation waited 20 years to start operations.
F.P. barely survived the early Depression, but revived rapidly under the New Deal, when the C.I.O. started dozens of union papers. Despite its Red sympathies, F.P. boasted some 200 subscribers (including many anti-Communist publications) at its peak shortly after World War II. But the agency's biggest support...
Sailor on Horseback. He wrote continuously and like a madman, with the lack of self-criticism of the self-educated. Yet he was a generous man of near-genius. He had the kind of gallant foolishness that he himself perfectly summed up by describing himself as a "sailor on horseback...
Physically, convalescent Stuart was like a child, having to learn all over again to stand alone and then to walk and, finally, to use his arms and hands and even to put food in his mouth. Mounting a short flight of steps was as exhausting as climbing the Matterhorn. Mentally...
But with some federal aid and the continuation of an emergency plan for desperate students, the Employment Office managed to continue its service through the depression years and more than made up for lost ground following the outbreak of World War II.