Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Congress wanted most to know was how to design a tax policy that would promote production, full employment and purchasing power. Almost to a man, U.S. businessmen agreed that rising production is sorely hindered by present federal taxes. Though postwar investment in plants and equipment has soared to alltime...
Revolt or not, says the Rev. George Buttrick, Harvard's professor of Christian morals, "the cycle has come full turn. Once we doubted our faith. Now we have come to doubt our doubts." The most overshadowing reason for this is "the threat of nothingness" brought on by the atomic...
There has been editorial attack on Yale's "fraternities," but the News spent much of its space explaining why it, too, served liquor to minors. Comments on national and international affairs appear infrequently, and are of the crudest armchair variety. One of them, written after the Eisenhower break in the...
After her parents' divorce, pretty Angeline and her mother stayed in Pittsburg, where Ethel Crowell (who was also a pretty blonde) taught social science in the high school, and was married and divorced a second time. During the Depression, Mrs. Crowell operated a four-hack taxicab company in Kansas...
Experts & Nonexperts. The Journal has come up the hard way, nevertheless. Sorely hit by the Depression, it was limping along on 30,000 circulation in 1940 when Managing Editor (now President) Bernard Kilgore decided to turn the stodgy financial sheet into a readable paper aimed at the average businessman as...