Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Out of the Hasty Pudding Club and Harvard in '33, Hewlett went into the Depression-years theater. When he had a job it was usually with GEORGE ABBOTT, Damn Yankees' director. Actor Hewlett played bits and served as Abbott's assistant stage director in Boy Meets Girl...
Three-Year Preparation. In 1950, the year he won his last great gains in five-year contracts with the auto industry's Big Three (General Motors, Ford and Chrysler), Reuther was already working to win the guaranteed annual wage in the new contract this year. His economists and researchers...
Russia's amazing diplomatic performance these days may be intended to seize any external opportunities offered, but from all the accumulating evidence, a big reason for wanting an easement abroad comes from troubles at home. While the U.S. and Western Europe prosper, Russia is in the throes of a...
Ugliness & Grandeur. Hopper had the initial good luck to study with Robert Henri, the No. 1 professor of the "Ash Can School" (TIME, May 16), who inspired him to paint the world he saw as he saw it. At first, his vision of his world was too dour to please...
Opening the West. The first man to do things in the lazy Santa Fe style was a Topeka lawyer named Cyrus Holliday, who dreamed of running a railroad into the great Southwest to replace the prairie schooner. By 1890 he and a succession of strong-willed presidents had battled Indians...