Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young gangster (Franchot Tone) extorts "protection money" from them. He seduces one man's daughter (Sylvia Sidney). At length he demands their savings. Their patience pushed too far, the outraged cronies decide to drown their tormentor. Once they do, everybody becomes as happy as a clam at high tide...
Riding on a tide of successful labor uprisings throughout the State, Locals 112 and 186 of the American Federation of Labor met in Cypress Hall, Central Square, last night and approved a tentative contract with the University calling for a closed shop in the Dining Halls and kitchens and wage increases of from one to eight dollars...
That there is a rising tide of anti-Semitism in the U. S. comparable to Europe's is the contention of many U. S. observers, especially Jews. Last week the American Jewish Congress, an organization to protect Jewish civil and economic rights headed by Manhattan's patriarchal Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, published a survey specifically charting the effects of Depression and world-wide anti-Semitism on Jewish job prospects. Devoted mainly to New York City, which has a population 28% Jewish, the survey showed...
...literary beach in recent years have rolled successive tides-a series of psychological novels, sociological books, newspapermen's memoirs, etc. A minor tide which showed no signs of ebbing in 1938 was a wave of books about doctors. Recent best-selling examples: An American Doctor's Odyssey, The Horse and Buggy Doctor, The Citadel. A book called Dr. Norton's Wife, by Dr. Ferdinand Schemm's wife, Mildred Walker, appeared last week just in time to ring the big year...
...recovery from 1933, commodities kept pace with business revival until the index hit 88.3 in April 1937 (v. 59.6 in 1933). Then, after Franklin Roosevelt remarked that certain prices were rising too fast, commodities hit the skids of Depression II. Since last summer when the industrial and financial tide turned again, commodities have kept right on sagging...