Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1specimen, the years since 1928 have been even sadder than for the rest of the world. Since Gene Tunney retired, the incumbents of this choice eminence have been uniformly unsatisfactory. Last week was the summer's busiest in heavyweight circles. In it, the promise of a happier era: 1) flickered darkly on the heavyweight horizon and 2) went...
...spectators, Reichsführer Adolf Hitler stopped chatting with his good friend Cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl, official Olympic photographer, long enough to discharge last week his sole function at the XIth Olympic Games. Said he: "I proclaim open the Olympic Games of Berlin, celebrating the XIth Olympiad of the modern era." Trumpets sounded across the arena. On a flagpole, the Olympic Flag-white with five interlocking circles representing the five continents-was slowly raised. Outside the stadium, guns boomed. Atop the staircase at the East gate appeared the last runner of the 3,000 who had relayed the Olympic Flame from...
...fourth year of Recovery. As a whole, the steel industry earned more money than in any first-half period since 1930. It was employing more workers (500,000), paying them more per hour (67?), than in 1929. Individual pay envelopes were not so fat as in the New Era because the work was spread thinner, but the steelmasters were already preparing for longer hours. Fortnight ago U. S. Steel, followed by other companies, announced time-&-a-half pay schedules for overtime on an eight-hour day or a 48-hour week. Last year the average steel worker worked only...
...nose for news. None of the northwest metropolitan newspapers that came to my attention gave this convention and celebration any notice whatever, either before, during or after the gathering. Practically all of the northwest newspapers are reactionary and, like Lot's wife, are looking backward. The Hoover era to them means happy days never to be forgotten and they sigh for their return...
...names which led the lists in 1929, with few exceptions, still lead the lists in 1936. Some of the names have been changed but the working bankers of the New Deal are largely the working bankers of the New Era. At the end of June the No. 1 U. S. house of issue was Morgan Stanley & Co., securities offspring of J. P. Morgan & Co. Occupying its traditional No. 2 position was Kuhn, Loeb...