Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president of the New York Stock Exchange, and Allen Ledyard Lindley, its vice president, talk about the stockmarket, bear raids, short sales. President Hoover was vitally interested because the recent fall of stocks below the lows of last November's crash focused the business depression in all its gloom before a nationwide electorate on its way to the polls...
...arch-conservative as the New "York Times' Alexander Dana Noyes berated Wall Street for a pessimism as ex-treme as its fantastic optimism of last year. And, in many a newspaper and business paper, financial leaders were berated for an absence of leadership as notable in days of gloom as in bygone days of merrymaking. Consensus of opinion was, in short, that Wall Street had ceased to be either guide or barometer to U. S. Industry: it was wrong in 1929's summer, wrong in 1930's spring, it was therefore more likely to be wrong than right...
...student in Union Theological Seminary he worked 14 hours a day. Besides his regular course, he took philosophy at Columbia. He also conducted a Bowery Mission, sometimes preaching nine times a Sunday to bums and toughs who needed strong, honest medicine. And he supported himself financially. Result: collapse, melancholia, gloom. It was, in evangelical idiom, the hand of God, for in later years thousands were to be rescued from despair by his sympathy. At least one man he indubitably saved from suicide. Development. Health regained, Harry Fosdick finished his last year at Union while serving as an assistant at Madison...
...first half day the plane covered only 750 mi. of its projected 4500 mi. course. (It carried fuel for 50 hr.) For the next twelve hours, its radio dead, the Tacoma was "lost" until it unexpectedly appeared out of the gloom at Shiriyazaki...
Twenty miles north of Chicago, at Ravinia, another music-loving tycoon faced another deficit: Louis Eckstein, whose summer opera avocation is almost vocation. Like Mr. Insull, Mr. Eckstein did not gloom. The summer's $200,000 loss will be made up somehow. Last year he and Mrs. Eckstein went into their own pockets for $97,000 of a $217,000 deficit. Said he last week: "I merely consider it my contribution to summer culture...