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Word: depressionitis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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In a sense, Hubert Humphrey arrived on the political scene too late. His brand of liberal was more at home in the mid-New Deal years, when a popular politician was the intellectual spellbinder who opened the floodgates of the U.S. Treasury with his Phi Beta Kappa key and let...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Moment of Truth | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Thus with a cynic's lullaby closed the final chapter-just 24 years ago this month-of one of the most tempestuous custody battles ever fought. The baby was eleven-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt, solemn-faced, button-cute heiress to a $4,000,000 trust fund, headlined in that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Haunting Echo | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

During the big Depression of the 1930s, Cleveland Press reporters took one 15% pay slash, then two more of 10% each. The National Recovery Administration limited the work week to 40 hours, but newsmen were left out. Instead, reporters got a 16-point "firing code" that let its authors, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After the Crusade | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

"Cover Eleanor." "All I ever demanded was results," Bach recalls, "and I got 'em." One reason was Teacher Bach's skill at spotting hungry boys with talent, most of them Depression kids with a drive to make good. For them, Bach's first aim was finding a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher with a Camera | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Public Career. Solid (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.), curly-haired Clint Anderson took early to Democratic politics. He handled several Depression-era state and federal jobs, dealing mostly with unemployment and relief in New Mexico, in 1940 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE SENATOR FROM NEW MEXICO | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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