Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having watched the stockmarket hit its fourth bottom without a heartening rally last week, Wall Street began to lift an anxious eye to the general business picture. Was the stockmarket forecasting another slump? Pooh-poohing the "harvest of gloomy warnings," Cleveland Trust Co.'s Leonard P. Ayres observed last week: "The declines in stock, bond and commodity prices are not astonishing. They were all overdue, for prices had been marked up overly fast by speculation. . . . Probably the chief cause of our worries is that most of us have forgotten that even during recoveries there are no such things...
...Commerce on December 12, 1934, Chairman Charles Gates Dawes of City National Bank & Trust Co. predicted that a sustained upswing in the durable goods industries would begin the following June or July. Nothing happened in June, and as late as June 27 economists including Cleveland's Col. Leonard Porter Ayres saw no signs that General Dawes was right. But less than two weeks later (TIME, July 22, 1935) steel ingot production suddenly began the rise which has been virtually continuous ever since. By this modest but clean-cut feat Banker Dawes gained a reputation as a Recovery Prophet.* Starting...
...Governor Browning left the White House his troubles were not over. At his hotel he found many messages. A big batch of them from labor unions urged the appointment of that eminent owner of a 30,000-acre Tennessee farm and hanger-on of the New Deal, Major George Leonard Berry, president of the International Pressmen's Union and Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation." Another batch of telegrams favored Mr. McReynolds and, strangely, many of them came not from Tennessee but from Manhattan. If Governor Browning wondered why, friends in Washington soon told...
Included in the list of distinguished scholars who will be present are Federal Workshops Supervisor Leonard M. Barker, John M. Brown, noted dramatic critic, and Bengt Edlen, of the University of Upsala, Sweden...
...imitation of TIME named Cavalcade was last week's American Cavalcade, edited by Thomas Bertram Costain, 51, associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post from 1920 to 1934. Handsome, well-printed on slick paper, illustrated with color, filled with stories, articles and poems by Rupert Hughes, Lucian Cary, Leonard Nason, Lois Montross, Frederick Irving Anderson, William Hazlett Upson, Valentine Williams, Albert Payson Terhune, Wallace Irwin, Jack Dempsey, Rian James, Gilbert Seldes, American Cavalcade looks the way a good issue of the Saturday Evening Post might look if waste wordage were squeezed out, advertising omitted, the magazine compressed to pocket...