Word: slump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naturally by a cynical reaction. The evidences abound on all sides. What Agnes Repplier called the decay of reticence, and what others call by a harsher name, indicates a general breaking down of standards. The way students steal books from college libraries is another evidence of a general moral slump. These evidences cannot be entirely dissociated from political corruption, unscrupulous business methods, racketeering, and general lawlessness. When there is a general moral depression it is likely to show itself in a multitude of different ways...
...continued effort to shake the team out of its present untimely slump. Horween yesterday sent his charges through a lengthy September 15 practice period, spending most of the afternoon drilling the eleven in early season fundamentals Blocking, tackling, and work on the dummies and charging machine took up most of the afternoon, with a final dummy scrimmage taking place in the twilight hours...
With these formal forecasts by rival party leaders, the 1930 Congressional campaign moved into its last hot week. Biggest issue: The Slump. Chief Democratic argument: "Hoover hard times." Republican argument: No economic recovery under Democratic rule. The election's magic number...
...nearest the President came to answering Democrats who twit him on the slump was when he said: "There are . . . several folks in the political world who resent the notion that things will ever get better and who wish to enjoy our temporary misery. To recount to these persons the progress . . . in amelioration . . . to mention that we are suffering far less than other countries, only inspires the unkind retort that we should fix our gaze solely upon the unhappy features of the decline...
...agreements of last year (no wage cuts, no strikes), declared that these "have been carried out in astonishing degree."** Public works and private construction, he said, have thus far this year risen $500,000,000 over last year; whereas there were some 2,000 labor disputes in the last slump, there have been less than 300 in this. Declared the President...