Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...requirements for member banks, effective Aug. 15. After nearly a year of public and private debate over the inflationary dangers of excess reserves, Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles had finally taken up the slack in the elaborate brake system provided by the Banking Act of 1935 to stop runaway credit expansion...
...held the Alamo against Santa Anna's overwhelming force until every one of them, and 500 Mexicans, were dead. The Mexicans marched on, captured Fannin's contingent, massacred them to a man. At that most settlers began scrambling pell-mell to the north in the famed "Runaway Scrape," But the blood of 800 of them was up now, and when Sam Houston yelled, "Remember the Alamo!" they rallied to him. Outside the present city of Houston, near where Buffalo Bayou meets the San Jacinto River, they took Santa Anna's army of 1,600 by surprise...
...period when favorable financial statements, increasing carloadings, bloated surplus bank reserves and low money rates point to rising prices on the stock market, brokers, politicians and business men face one vital issue. Can the federal government stop a runaway bull market? Optimists point hopefully at the recent regulations on short sales, the flexible margin requirements, and wide discretionary authority vested in the SEC and the Federal Reserve Board. But as Mr. LeFevre points out in the current Saturday Evening Post, all of these panaceas may prove futile unless the unscientific income tax imposed on capital gains is repealed...
...years of hack work was set free. Still a back-country village, Pittsburgh was just the place for a man with an embittered soul, a keen eye for the grotesque and a liking for the rough & tumble life of taverns and streets. David Blythe painted drunks, loafers, pickpockets, runaway horses, grinning bill-collectors, swaying stagecoaches. With warm colors and swift, vigorous draughtsmanship, he poked fun at such everyday events as the rump-bumping scramble for mail in Post Office (see cut) or a lawyer braying at a gaping jury in A Court Room Scene...
...picture of which Doris Lee is fondest is The Runaway, showing a girl in a streaming yellow dress gripping the mane of a bolting horse. The Haunted House is a dilapidated structure, surrounded by grim and groping trees, with all the windows on the third floor boarded up except one from which a wildly gesticulating woman is leaning. One of the best is The Widow, an Amazonian figure with feet planted wide apart, grasping the bridles of two snorting, dancing horses. There is one nude, a pert, heavy-legged girl with fruity lips, combing a mop of chocolate-colored hair...