Word: recessional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Few U. S. Presidents ever acquired as much political prestige as Franklin Roosevelt had in December 1936. Few have lost as much as he lost in 1937. Crowded off the Congressional stage by the fight to enlarge the Supreme Court last spring, the plan to reorganize the executive branch was...
In any list of Franklin Roosevelt's noteworthy qualifications for his difficult job, one that should not be overlooked is his amazing capacity for sustaining the antics which Washington's otherwise highly judicious newspapermen consider to be comic. Rated according to ordinary standards, many a quarter-hour of...
The nation's box-office receipts in cinema are currently estimated as 15% less than they were a year ago. For this decrease the cinemindustry blames the U. S. business recession. But other explanations have been suggested: 1) the topheavy ratio of bad motion pictures to good ones, perhaps...
The increase was sought to pull the roads out of the worst hole in their rocky, century-long financial history. The Depression knocked the railroads groggy. The Recession has all but knocked them out. To railroaders the reason is simple: never since the first spike was driven have railroad costs...
In Washington last week, this version of a 20-year-old War song was sung by 3,000 U. S. youths and maidens of about that age who congregated in the Capital to lobby for passage of the American Youth Act. Unimpressed by foreign crises, nationwide Recession or the advisability...