Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chapin started out to become an architect (University of Pennsylvania '33), but taught himself to draw maps when the building business dried up during the Depression. He still finds time to design an occasional house, including his own at Sharon, Conn. "Bob Chapin is far more than a cartographer...
Voice of Prophecy. Ironically, the first President to violate the budget process was one who had been a strong advocate of it. As Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913-21), Franklin Roosevelt campaigned in defense of the budget program. In the 1932 campaign he promised to balance the budget. He...
Goliath and the Bike-Racer. A descendant of the original French aeronauts who bounced from Paris to London in a converted 75-m.p.h. Farman "Goliath" bomber after World War I, Air France was formed in 1933 from five struggling companies. Frenchmen had already pioneered commercial routes through Europe and Africa...
¶ Myron C. Taylor, 82, chairman and chief executive officer of U.S. Steel from 1932 to 1938, retired as a director after 30 continuous years on the board. Brought in by the House of Morgan in 1927 to scurf the accumulated rust off the company management, Lawyer Taylor, a recognized...
Katherine threw herself into community activities. She became a compulsive eater, and over the years puffed herself up into a caricature of the professional clubwoman. Amid economic troubles, sexual discontent and her husband's surly behavior, she appeared affable and relaxed. But by 48, she had dangerously high blood...