Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest beauties of the South. A third is Mona Strader Schlesinger Bush Williams. Last week Harrison Williams, multi-millionaire utility tycoon, gave up active management of his two investment trusts named for the valley and the mountains. Thus does a New Deal succeed a New Era...
...Era. Harrison Williams, Ohio-born, now turned 60, was ten years ago a great utility man, master of Central States Electric Corp. and North American Co. The degree of his mastery is evident from the fact that in 1931 he controlled of North American. Naturally he was rich. As an interesting gesture he with Vincent Astor, Marshall Field and the late Henry Devereaux Whiton financed William Beebe's expeditions to the Sargasso Sea and the Galapagos Islands-with the result that there is today a Harrison Williams Volcano in the islands. He also bought the Krupp-built Vanados, then...
...Catchings was classed in 1929 as an Economist, and he expounded many arresting theories, among them the theory of the New Era: that profits and prices were going on & on and up & up. He was joint author of several books showing how depressions could be ended forever by just buying and buying. President Hoover read his book, The Road to Plenty...
...when Mr. Catchings resigned from Goldman, Sachs and marched over to a desk in Mr. Williams' office, the New Era came definitely...
...opportunity for evaluation and philosophic estimation, but beyond Mr. Adams does not go. Should it not be possible for one who has, in Mr. Adams' happy phrase, "lived with the writings of Henry Adams" to give some suggestion of Adams' influence upon his times, of his place in an era? John Adams was the fearless spokesman of his period, John Quincy Adams was the barker of the side show of the 1820's, '30's, and '40's. So much is a matter of history; these two men caught something of the spirit of the fragments of time in which...