Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shock in the spectacle now being played in Boston. One candidate remarks "The people of Boston have elected some peculiar figures in the past but they have never elected a consummate liar": another wields witty puns on the straight and the Curley; charges break from harmless general statements and turn to reciprocal specific slanders...
...vote campaigns of the newspapers this year are operating with somewhat barren material. It is fairly easy to call out the citizenry when it feels the presence of party needs, great issues, distinguished candidates. It becomes increasingly difficult as each of these matters is in turn obscured by the very men who are seeking office. Perhaps the best way for voters to show their sympathies in the present campaign is to stay at home next Tuesday...
...bull market on which the country has ridden in "Republican prosperity" the past eight years is a commonplace. The break of the past week has been a debacle. Whether the prosperity is to continue, or is to turn into a period of relative depression is hardly to be foretold, but the greatest stock crisis in history can hardly be designated as a technical readjustment. Whether the decline in what admittedly was an inflated market was touched off by the hammering of bear fools that finally tapped a layer of stop loss orders, whether the some what uncertain business conditions that...
...unpermitted occupation of city streets. The plain clothes men cannot convict on a mere request to buy tickets, but must wait until they see the tickets change hands to place the speculator under arrest. For this reason, many of the professional men go free, but as they turn the ticket number over to the Athletic Association in return for money, the student selling them it almost always blacklisted...
...Daladier is like an English Liberal wondering whether he will turn Laborite," he continued. "He and his party are not the extremists in France; the Communists are still beyond them. The award of the portfolios of Finance and War to the Moderate party and the appointment of Briand indicate that he is making some concessions to the other factions...