Word: slump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture exhibits in euphemistic style the collapse of Producer Ziegfeld's romance with Anna Held, his meeting with Billie Burke (Myrna Loy), Christmas Day among the home-loving Ziegfelds, including small Patricia and her dolls. Enraged as his stars go off to Hollywood, Ziegfeld goes into a slump. He recoups again, puts four simultaneous hits on Broadway, mortgages their receipts to play the market. When Producer Ziegfeld died in 1932, he was heavily in debt.* In this particular, the picture is historically trustworthy. Its hero is shown expiring in elegant penury, an orchid in one hand, repeating...
...dividend gave the investor approximately 3% on his money. The ballyhoo over canned beer- a novelty which will not really meet its test until the summer of 1936-gave both can stocks an added fillip of enthusiasm which has been modified on second thought. Barring a slump in the 1936 fruit and vegetable pack, the future would appear to hold no menace for the can business which stands high among the more stable and profitable of U. S. industries...
...particularly in the Democratic portion. . . . There came into Kentucky Democratic Senators Barkley and Logan, the scholarly orator. ex-Governor and ex-Senator Stanley, Mrs. Ross, a woman ex-Governor from the West, several of Kentucky's Democratic Congressional delegation and others, who. with our local orators, upon every slump proclaimed the glory of the President and how a vote against the Democratic gubernatorial nominee was a vote to repudiate the President. Naturally, this "pro" oratory excited the President's very large popularity in the State to unusual activity...
Buildings and Grounds Slump...
...defended the assassins of Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye and Financier Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (TIME, July 10, 1933). As the merchant hesitated, the revolutionist argued slyly: "Consider the 100,000 yen you contribute to our cause as an investment. Sell shares short and take your profit in the slump that will follow our coup. There cannot fail to be a slump. We are going to assassinate the entire Cabinet, the leaders of all political parties, and nine great dignitaries including Count Nobuaki Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal...