Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some gentlemen may rise in horror and say, 'Why, Mr. Lewis has made a personal attack on Mr. Garner.' Yes, I make a personal attack on Mr. Garner for what he is doing, because Garner's knife is searching for the quivering, pulsating heart of labor. And I am against...
...Again, 'The Boss' " was the caption under a picture of Paul V. ("Snow White") McNutt on a pamphlet issued by Indiana's Unemployment Compensation Administration. Beneath picture & caption appeared a chart showing the McNutt rise from law school dean in 1925 to Legion Commander in 1928, Governor in 1933, Philippine High Commissioner in 1937, to a radiant White House in 1941. Candidate McNutt, now Federal Security Administrator charged with supervising expenses of State unemployment insurance systems, forgave his overzealous friends but, embarrassed by talk in the U. S Senate, ordered the Indiana board's Federal funds...
...this same week business' most sensitive barometer-the stockmarket as mirrored in the Dow-Jones industrial averages-enthusiastic over prospects for the second half of 1939, dashed off a sensational 6.1-point rise, reached its highest point since March (144.7 against 152.3 then). For the first week in six months the New York Stock Exchange had four 1,000,000 share days. All listed shares rose some two billions...
...skater who plays in skating pictures, her cinema personality is closer to her real one than Hollywood usually allows. Many of her more literal-minded fans, indeed, have a tendency to interpret her pictures as autobiographical. In One In a Million her fans recognized the story of her painstaking rise to an Olympic title, coached and protected by a loving father who once had Olympic ambitions himself-a figure much like that jolly, bicycle-riding Oslo shopkeeper, Wilhelm Henie. When, as a professional skater in Happy Landing, Sonja fell in love with her manager, sophisticated cinemaddicts reminded each other...
...issue was about to mature, apparently a total loss to U. S. bondholders. Then came rumors that Washington might act, that the Philippine Commonwealth would redeem the issue at $65. Bonds shot up to $31 in January and February as speculators bought for the rise, crashed when President Manuel Quezon denied his Government was buying them. Smelling a rigger, SEC investigated, found the flurry had cost speculators about...