Word: risings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started Democrats at the College never had a chance. Coolidge (in 1924) and Hoover (in 1928) won the undergraduate polls handily, although the Law School returned a large majority for Alfred E. Smith in 1928. Two parties of Harvard "indifference" grew up in that decade. 1924 saw the rise and fall of the Nihilists, a masked and secret society of 50 men who backed Little Codfish Cabot (a dummy at the top of a telephone pole) for President and Joe Dube, "the favorite of Soldiers Field...
Eliot reiterated Kennedy's hope that the rise of liberal senators in the south would unite the Democratic Party...
...plot moons over the rise of a young ballerina (Moira Shearer) and a young composer (Marius Goring) in Impresario Anton Walbrook's celebrated ballet troupe. Having spent what seems like a feature-length lifetime in making the two youngsters famous, it runs them afoul of the impresario's deadpan dictum that marriage makes a career in ballet impossible...
...train. The receiver was specially built by Bendix engineers to eliminate such bugs as landscape blocks, high speed (the train hit 80 m.p.h.), and static caused by passing trains. Biggest problem was the antenna. Because of the low clearances allowed by trestles, tunnels and overpasses, the antenna could rise only 15¾ inches above...
...companies to get big-time radio stars at comparatively small cost, and 2) big-time stars to keep much more of their income by making it in stock profits, taxable as a long-term capital gain (maximum 25%) instead of income (maximum 77%). In effect, if the stock should rise in value-thanks to Crosby's radio plugging-and Crosby should sell his shares, the profits were expected to be taxed as capital gain. (Outsiders were already offering $7 a share for the stock...