Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME's "People" department of the July 17 issue mentions our Canadian economist-humourist Stephen Leacock and the rescue he was involved in recently. Though your staff usually get the background for their stories pretty well, they missed out on this For early in his writing career, in his...
"We would be in a hell of a fix if we had followed Mr. Chamberlain. We would be in the same fix we were in as a result of the Stimson incident [1932] when he and Sir John Simon endeavored to halt Japan's early conquest of North China...
In 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...
Yet Wendell Willkie showed every sign of feeling just about as much defeated as a grizzly bear on a rampage. Willkie is one of the few businessmen who, after trading punches with the New Deal, appeared to have as much fight left in him as his New Deal opponent. Fortnight...
He believes that the "magic touch of par" corrupted business in the booming 20s. "Par," he says, "is just as destructive on Pennsylvania Avenue as it was in Wall Street. Par goes to men's heads. When you see the bust of Napoleon on the desk of a businessman...