Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite Gigli's fortissimo reception, New Yorkers still remembered the hullabaloo when he failed to take a salary cut during the Depression as other Met stars did. In 1939, back in Mussolini's Italy, he denounced the Met as decadent, predicted "something like a civil war" in the...
"She's a bonny woman," said a mill girl as the red and black Rolls-Royce with the royal standard fluttering above its radiator crept through a Lancashire cotton town one sunny day last week. From the car window Queen Elizabeth II smiled at her loyal Lancastrians and waved...
George Maurice Lichtenstein, 49, is a newspaper cartoonist who earns $50,000 a year by illustrating an American homily of good-humored resignation: "Grin and Bear It." In his satirical, topical "Grin and Bear It" cartoon, which runs in more than 270 U.S. dailies. Cartoonist "Lichty" has created such harried...
An Old Pro. Harlem-born Sammy was smitten with show business about as soon as he could take a few dance steps. At three, Sammy hit the Orpheum Circuit in a flashy family act, has stuck with his father and uncle ever since-they still open his act with some...
Since the depression, Western nations have accepted the necessity of freer trade. The need for economic strength in the Cold War has only confirmed this belief, yet under the sway of particular interests, the United States has failed to lower its tariffs on many products manufactured by her allies. Consequently...