Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stockmarket traders last week found themselves forced back to the neighborhood of the line established by last November's panic. Stocks stood generally at or near their 1930 lows, which in several cases had sunk even under the 1929 panic figures. Lowered money rates and reduced brokers loans had no effect. It was generally felt that bear operators were ready and able to force continued lows during the present week...
Failures. A period of economic stress and strain is always ominously punctuated by bank failures. Ten banks last week closed their doors. Some were small, their failure consequently significant only to the immediate neighborhood. Of more general import were the following...
...Fountain Hill, near Danville, Va., Frank W. Davis, 60, farmer, started to starve himself to death May 12, because he was too old to work, because he had no relatives. He took no food, only water. Last week he was still alive, to his neighborhood's amazement, but not to Medicine's. On June 7, threatened with commitment to the insane asylum, he took food again, having fasted 26 days...
...Middlesex, England. So that the play's double meanings will not elude even the dullest playgoer, Mrs. Wampus continually addresses her daughters as "her girls," and the daughters further the effect by referring to her as "madame." Complications set in as soon as the young men of the neighborhood, believing that nothing more untoward has occurred than a change of management, begin calling on the telephone for "Mabel" and dropping in informally while inebriated. At the end of two hours of unclean fun, the youngest daughter is betrothed to the local vicar's son-whose first appearance...
...East Side selling a consignment of badly spoiled meat. She and her longtime friend, Julia C. Lathrop, went back to Chicago a few years later and started their charitarian operations in the home of one Charles J. Hull, at Halsted near Polk Street. It was a lively neighborhood. On one side stood a mortuary, on the other a saloon. Hull-House grew, expanded building by building until now it occupies the entire block, is one of the biggest, one of the oldest, certainly the most famed of U. S. settlement houses. As the neighborhood changed, so did racial predominance among...