Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the late '20s, with a team that included such superlative players as Al Simmons, Lefty Grove, Jimmy Foxx and Mickey Cochrane, Mr. Mack worked his way back toward the top. In '29, '30 and '31 he won his last three pennants. This time the Depression...
"There was more than one cause for the insane state of the German mind before World War II," Tillich said. He described the depression of 1929 as responsible for a "deadly resentment" developed in the minds of the German middle class. "The Nazis were skillful enough to turn this resentment...
Depression-born, the New Deal, haunted by overproduction and "reckless" past expansion, could hardly be expected to put much stress on speeding up the growth of the economy as a whole. The New Deal, operating on the assumption that the economy was maturing, stressed the struggle between classes for a...
The Great Depression made a minority out of the Republican Party-and kept it that way for many a year. In November 1951, the Gallup poll found that 37% of the voters thought the nation's economic future was safest in the hands of the Democrats, while only 29...
Bicycle Rider. Mencken's day faded fast. First the Depression and then the repeal of Prohibition outdated both him and his straw men. He tried to laugh off the Depression. But the college men, now unemployed, who had always laughed with Mencken, failed to get the joke. The old...