Word: recessional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the first five years of Franklin Roosevelt's regime, he ran the U. S. Government faster and more completely than any President before or since. In the year since the Court fight, the President may have seemed to have slackened his pace because other of the people'...
As Los Angeles' damaging flood receded and equally damaging Recession mounted, Zoopark found its cupboard bare. For three weeks, while drowned animals were buried and wrecked cages repaired, the park had no revenue. Animals were first cut to half rations, then to one third. Ribs began to show. Anna...
Said Mr. Jones: "I am not at all pessimistic. ... I am convinced from my contact with business all over the country that there are no real basic economic ills responsible for the present setback and that the worst part of the recession is in the minds of the people."
Behind this evidence of declining confidence in Homer Martin's leadership was a variety of reasons. Recession has meant long layoffs or drastic reductions in hours for thousands of auto workers. Unemployment is always a severe test of the loyalty of union members, particularly so for U. A. W...
Last July Funk & Wagnalls sold the once great Literary Digest to the Albert Shaws Sr. & Jr. (Review of Reviews). Last October the Shaws passed the Digest on to George F. Havell & associates. Mr. Havell and his friends, none of them wealthy, anticipated working capital from an unnamed publishing angel. While...