Word: duringer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tops among Hollywood writer-director teams for many a year were hairy little Frank Capra, who used to be a Mack Sennett gagman, and baldish Robert Riskin, who got into the movie business when a shirt manufacturer he was working for decided to take a flier in shorts. During the...
2) During the prosperous Republican Twenties, while Washington boasted balanced budgets, State and local governments were running up debt at the rate of nearly $1,000,000,000 yearly; since 1932, however, State and local governments instead of providing an outlet for savings have been piling them up. Carrie'...
Lauch Currie probably comes nearer to having a passion for anonymity than any other New Deal adviser. First evidence of Currie's growing technical weight in Washington came in the spring of 1938, when he wrote an influential memo on the Causes of the Recession. Its prime theses, now...
During the next three hours minority stockholders (including Manhattan Ribbon Manufacturer Arthur C. Flatto, recent No. 1 stockholding critic of Western Union) aired their views, heckled the management, demanded minority representation, applauded, jeered. When the uproar was over, tough Charlie Hardy announced the results of the annual election: the management...
During this retreat Groesbeck was not thinking of winning victories. He was thinking of saving his army. All through the winter, as he shuttled back & forth between Washington and Manhattan, Groesbeck wondered how he could get out from under, how he could forestall public agencies from building competitive transmission lines...