Word: easterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...antimonopoly legislation. Then, having blanketed U. S. front pages by simply making news as completely as any dictator could blanket the columns of a censored press, Franklin Roosevelt polished off his week by attending to his correspondence of some 10,000 letters, watching 30,000 children roll Easter eggs on the White House lawn...
...thing, a resumption of hoarding. But Federal Reserve officials pooh-poohed the idea. According to them, one week's rise is insufficient evidence and may be only an accident. More likely explanation, said they, was the fact that sales last week were momentarily stimulated by the approach of Easter. For the week ending March 26 this year, which was the week before Easter last year, department store sales were off 18% from 1937. For the week ending April 2, which was two weeks before Easter this year, department store sales were off only 2%. Q. E. D. said...
...concluded with a statement that the Easter Gospel proclaims Christ still alive among us today...
...seek ye the living among the dead?" began the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, President of the Union Theological Seminary in New York, in his Easter Sunday sermon before a capacity congregation in a Memorial Church gaily decorated with lillies, tulips, and daffodils...
...outside it is relatively quiet. Inside one voice talks, and many voices sing, and a thousand flowers and some heads not for one hour. Then once more--taxis, limousines, streetcars, bells, walking feet, colors. Easter Sunday again...