Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great 40% stock melon in 1927, Judge Gary drew up the Board in two long lines and jubilantly invited reporters in to see his potent directors "in the flesh." But at last week's meeting the directors, confronted with the poorest quarterly statement since the pre-War era, cut the common dividend from a yearly rate of $7 to $4 (TIME, Aug. 3). They left the meeting hastily, silently, Morgan-Partner Lamont forgetting his hat in his hurry. But President Farrell had something to tell reporters. Four words: "Wages were not touched." There was a bit of triumph...
With the old Yippee! of the cowpunching West, Cheyenne last week held its 35th annual celebration of Frontier Days, at its big park sentimentally dedicated to the era when Cheyenne was a way stop for the Pony Express.* The original U. S. rodeo, Frontier Days drew all the West's best cowhands for five days of hard competition. Governor William Adams, onetime cowboy, went up from Colorado to watch the fun. Publisher Frederick Bonfils of the Denver Post, last great frontier pub publisher, took 400 guests to Cheyenne in a special train. There were pep and parades, noise...
Said Henry Ford: "People are doing a lot of thinking today. They've got to get used to a new era. We are in a different era and we have got to face...
...Money). Constance, most spectacular of the three, has ash-blonde hair, big round eyes, bow-lips and an expletive vocabulary reputed to be the equal of her father's. As a débutante, she was one of the most provocative college prom girls of the Scott Fitzgeraldized era. Her second husband, Millionaire Philip Plant, caused her to desert a promising cinema and stage career...
...have the dew and the dawn and the sunshine of a new era. No man or woman will ever go hungry in this town...