Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enforced return to the U. S., his sensational criminal trials in Chicago made many a front-page piece of newspaper copy for many a day. But on that morning in 1932 no one knew better than the hardbitten little utilitarian that his downfall marked the end of a financial era...
...priestesses, a well-dressed, pleasant-faced woman named Mrs. Georgiana Tree West announced last week in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel that she had incorporated a new Unity Center in that city, was hunting a permanent location for it. Said Mrs. West: "There is a new religious era, and it is being led by women. Women have the new vision of the new interpretations of the teachings of Jesus Christ...
...planning that we are doing in Washington. In the long run, taking just flood prevention as one of many examples-in the long run, we will save hundreds of millions of dollars by planning for the future." In Bowling Green, he summoned up the spirit of the era of Roosevelt II: "You cannot compare the conditions of 1932 with the conditions of 1938. I sort of sense a deep understanding, a human happiness in the hearts and in the minds of the great majority of Americans, a happiness that this country is surviving under a democratic form of government...
...Business received a thumping endorsement from the Brookings Institution (see col. 3), the Federal Trade Commission polished off a two-year investigation of the farm-equipment industry by proposing a major change in the 24-year-old Clayton Anti-Trust Act. This product of the first trust-busting era made it illegal for one company to purchase the capital stock of another when the result might substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly. FTC claims that the farm-equipment industry is an example of this law's effective evasion through the purchase of competitors' assets rather...
...chairman of the board of governors (TIME, May 23). He immediately won a friendly press, made a hit with SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. After considering some 200 "big names," the board of governors came to the conclusion that it could find no better symbol of a new stockmarket era than young Bill Martin. At their pleasure, he will hold the job indefinitely. Salary: $48,000 a year...