Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There should be no fear at any deserving American fireside that starvation or cold will creep within their doors this winter. . . .† The general health of the people is at a higher level today than ever before. . . . There have been less strikes than even in normal times. . . . I finally secured the passage of the [Home Loan Bank] bill. ... I have practically prohibited all immigration. . . . We have fought a great battle to maintain the stability of the American dollar. . . . Credit is being expanded and normal jobs are coming back. . . . September alone shows an increase of 3 6/10% in employment...
...Harvard today. There will we are glad, be less money spent for essences of grain and grape this year, and perhaps a little more for beer. Which means that men will either be wearing elastic-sided pleats at waist-line level, or that there will be fewer men objectionable late Saturday when the only thing that can keep a man's grin together in that fact of his weariness is the sting of liquor. This is to the good...
Meanwhile municipal bonds slumped back to the level of the Walker regime as New York prepared to elect, simultaneously for the first time in 60 years, a Mayor, a Governor and a President...
Belching clouds of smoke and cinders, His Majesty's locomotive tugged the royal train up and up, raised it a mile and one-half above sea level on the 75-mi. run to Asmara, Eritrea's capital, where natives of pure Abyssinian stock speak a language derived from ancient Geez...
...Speed is scarcely felt, because the cars start and stop smoothly. But many passengers become uncomfortable as they ride. The air pressure atop the great tower buildings is about one-half pound per square inch less than at the street level. Elevator passengers feel the difference as an annoying pressure on the ear drums. They overcome the discomfort by pretending to swallow. That action opens the eustachian tubes, allows air pressure on the inner sides of the ear drums to equalize air pressure on the outer sides...