Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shock of last week's Wet revolt at the polls made itself felt in the referenda of eleven states, as follows...
...current attitude toward charity relief work is a part of the general unwillingness to face the depression honestly in an effort to remedy its underlying causes. The national leaders and the country as a whole prefer to muddle along, cushioning the shock with temporary palliatives, refusing to analyze deeply and comforting themselves instead with noisy assurances that things will get better...
After quizzing the Browne servants, last week Sleuth Scaffa bee-lined for Manhattan's Hotel Montclair. There he uncovered the thief and gave Mrs. Browne a nasty shock. The culprit was one of her best friends, Mrs. Whitney Endt, 28, wife of an insurance broker, future heiress to a comfortable fortune, often a welcome guest in the Browne home. Mrs. Endt, who recently lost a child and suffered injuries in a motor wreck, weepingly promised to redeem the $2,000 worth of jewels from pawnbrokers. Police opinion: kleptomania...
...twelve banks owned by George Wingfield opened. It was this chain's weakness which precipitated all the trouble. Banker Wingfield is a tall, powerful man with a shock of black hair shot with grey. He was born in Fort Smith, Ark. in 1876, the year of the Custer Massacre. Before he was old enough to enter a saloon he struck out for Nevada. In Winnemucca he learned faro, poker, bird-cage and 21. He was soon called "The Boy Gambler" and banked his own faro. He was in Goldfield during the 1906 boom, made a million dollars in mining...
...other depression has the Government taken a hand. But this time, after the first shock, in the autumn of 1929, the President called a conference of business leaders. His concern was for the working people. . . . The President's foresight and prompt action upheld the wage scale for a year and a half in the face of constantly diminishing profits. Then the Government created emergency jobs for workers who otherwise would have had none...