Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political reprisals, legislation whereby veterans could borrow 50% of the face value of their bonus certificates. And in 1934 it secured the restoration of a large part of the pension cuts made by President Roosevelt in the name of Depression economy. In 1931 the Legion membership reached a peak of 1,050,000. Last year it was down to 887,000. This year, with the prospect of more cash, it hopes to finish with 1,250,000 dues-paying members. Three-quarters of the Legion membership is in small towns, the kind from which most Congressmen come. Each Legionary...
Meanwhile last week the concert season was at its peak, with business definitely better than last year when it was on the upswing from the season before. Established artists are having more engagements this winter before bigger audiences. Music halls from coast to coast are plastered with posters which coax people to step inside and buy tickets. Concert headliners in the season's news...
...sang her farewell to opera, Manhattan's Metropolitan built her a throne on the stage, fairly swamped her with flowers, gifts, eulogies. Operagoers that bleak February night cheered themselves croupy while tears ran down many a wrinkled old cheek. But why was this great singer retiring at the peak of her career? "Because I like the sun best when it is high." Last week in Manhattan Death came to Marcella Sembrich who, save for Schumann Heink and Calvé, was the last survivor of an age which produced Patti, Lilli Lehmann, Melba, Nordica, Nilsson and the two de Reszkes...
...hates and fears the Bolsheviks across the Baltic, could rejoice at all sorts of prosperous indexes as he snapped on his sapphire cuff links, his dainty wrist watch and his gold snake bracelet. Stockholm editors now speak of Depression as something definitely passed. Registered unemployment is down from the peak of 187,000 at this time last year to 53,000. Taking 100 as the measure of Swedish production in 1929, it is up from 79 during 1932 to 101 today. Typical of pleasant surprises, to which Swedes are now growing accustomed, is the latest report of the State Railways...
...peak of the Depression passed 30 days ago," said James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel Corp. in January 1931. Same week Owen D. Young declared that the "dead centre" of Depression had come & gone...