Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigation of the stock market, which had some suspiciously political overtones from the start, last week turned into an out-and-out dogfight between Democrats and Republicans. G.O.P. Chairman Leonard Hall charged that Committee Member Paul Douglas of Illinois was "one of the original instigators of the gloom-and-doom attack" during the last congressional campaign, and that one of the star witnesses, Harvard's Professor John K. Galbraith, was an "oldtime New Dealing, A.D.A.-type of anti-Jeffersonian radical [who] flirted around with the customary pink fronts," and "almost wrecked" World War II's Office of Price...
Galbraith, an economic aide to Stevenson during the 1952 election campaign, was accused Monday by Capehart of being a "gloom and doom adviser" to the Presidential nominee. Capehart is the ranking Republican member of the Senate Banking Committee investigating the 18-month boom in the stock market...
Earlier in the meeting Capehart had read from the booklet and then shifted his attack to accuse Galbraith of being a "gloom and doom adviser to Adlai Stevenson...
Tonight in Samarkand (by Jacques Deval and Lorenzo Semple Jr.) takes its theme from the famous Oriental legend-about the inevitability of fate-that also suggested John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. The doom-dodger in this some-what Oriental tale of French circus life is a much-besought tamer of tigers (Jan Farrand), who, fearing the future, gazes into the crystal ball of the magician (Louis Jourdan). In two flash-forwards, the ball reveals that on her next birthday -whether she marries a juggler or a millionaire-she must perish in a steamship disaster. Finally, because...
...values, partly from having its outcome foreordained, in time starts dragging its feet. A third stanza of Have a Rendezvous with Death seems excessive particularly as the chink in the final marriage's armor against fate is pretty easy to spot. For a lady who keeps late-dating doom, two earlier-in-the-evening admirers are quite enough...