Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tobacco trust, the sugar trust. But the anti-trust laws never stopped men from taking the advice given by every U. S. dollar: e pluribus enum. The mergers of 1929 carried that advice to extremes if not to absurdity. The ghost of 1929 had last week the grim task of watching 1933 prepare to do what the anti-trust laws had never done, and saw one of the gigantic corporations which 1929 had created out of big and little ones, voluntarily and deliberately decide to disband-saw, grimmest of all, the financial community giving tacit approval...
Nine years have passed since Montana's grim-jawed Senator "Tom" Walsh, before a breathless audience that packed the big marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building, hammered out the questions & answers which sent Harry Sinclair to jail for contempt, put Albert Bacon Fall behind bars as a bribe-taker. Nine years have made the Oil Scandal investigation ancient political history. But its drama, its sensationalism, its clash and color of personalities were recalled by Washington observers who searched for something with which to compare the Senate's investigation of the House of Morgan...
...years the majority of American people believed that the higher the tariff, the higher the wages and the general level of prosperity in the country would be. Now they have learned the grim lesson that with the highest tariff the country has ever had, more than 13 millions have no wages...
...certain man. When the senior found his junior he would slap him on the back and bark, "Go to your room!" Such was Yale's "Tap Day." when the four secret senior societies (Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club) chose members. A distinctly grim overtone accompanied the proceedings-the chagrin and bitterness of men who hoped they would be wanted and were...
Three hundred eager citizens went early last week to Manhattan's Federal Building and scurried to find seats in a courtroom on the third floor, a courtroom with faded yellow walls, with cracks and patches and the dingy paint and plaster off its ceiling. In this grim auditorium with miserable acoustics, they settled down to see a show. As prolog they enjoyed 20 minutes of minor prohibition and narcotic cases. Then court bailiffs cleared the auditorium...