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Why the economy still feels worse than it looks
Money & CompanyStop with the Great Depression comparisons, already! So argued economist Allan Meltzer of Carnegie Mellon University in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that caused a stir in the economics community. Meltzer???s central point was that... -
Is this economic downturn just what the doctor ordered?
Booster ShotsIf the recession has you worried about paying for visits to the doctor, here???s a small silver lining: a new study strengthens the link between a bad economy and good health. The Great Depression that began with the stock market...... -
Joanne Jordan dies at 88; television spokesmodel in 1950s
![Joanne Jordan, one of the top spokesmodels on television in the 1950s who was best known for touting "long-lasting" Hazel Bishop lipstick during commercial breaks on "This Is Your Life," has died. She was 88.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-09/49447438-23200405.jpg "Joanne Jordan, one of the top spokesmodels on television in the 1950s who was best known for touting "long-lasting\" Hazel Bishop lipstick during commercial breaks on \"This Is Your Life,\" has died. She was 88.")
Joanne Jordan, one of the top spokesmodels on television in the 1950s who was best known for touting "long-lasting" Hazel Bishop lipstick during commercial breaks on "This Is Your Life," has died. She was 88.
Jordan, who also was an actress and TV host,...Tags: Topeka (Shawnee, Kansas), NBC (tv network), Family, Bob Hope, Television
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'Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression' by Morris Dickstein
![Morris Dickstein's "Dancing in the Dark" is not exactly the syncretic "Cultural History of the Great Depression" that its subtitle promises -- at best, the book treats inferentially the broad political and social trends of that desperate, crucial era. Let me quickly add, the book is something better than that: a collection of thoughtfully linked essays on relatively few but exemplary works and their creators -- novels, poems, plays, movies, art (both high and decorative) and music (both popular and classical) that defined the period between the Crash of 1929 and America's entrance into World War II. These admirably written pieces are marked by a generosity of spirit that never deteriorates into the quarrelsome or the niggardly, even when Dickstein does not fully endorse the objects he's discussing.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-09/49140481-11134725.gif "Morris Dickstein's "Dancing in the Dark\" is not exactly the syncretic \"Cultural History of the Great Depression\" that its subtitle promises -- at best, the book treats inferentially the broad political and social trends of that desperate, crucial era. Let me quickly add, the book is something better than that: a collection of thoughtfully linked essays on relatively few but exemplary works and their creators -- novels, poems, plays, movies, art (both high and decorative) and music (both popular and classical) that defined the period between the Crash of 1929 and America's entrance into World War II. These admirably written pieces are marked by a generosity of spirit that never deteriorates into the quarrelsome or the niggardly, even when Dickstein does not fully endorse the objects he's discussing.")
Morris Dickstein's "Dancing in the Dark" is not exactly the syncretic "Cultural History of the Great Depression" that its subtitle promises -- at best, the book treats inferentially the broad political and social trends of that desperate, crucial era. Let...Tags: Cary Grant, California, Berkeley (Alameda, California), Nathanael West, Culture
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It's in the '20s here
Special to The TimesPerched above the hub of old Hollywood, Outpost Estates is one of the original premier developments in Los Angeles. Touted as the "jewel in the hills" by its developer, the area reflects a glamorous bygone era with luxurious single-family homes set on...Tags: John Burroughs, Family, Mary Pickford, Dracula (movie, 1931), Los Angeles Times
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Exploring the Depression's artistic legacy in San Francisco
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterStocks have crashed, industry is shuddering and banks are failing. The restless unemployed will soon fill the streets. Yet in San Francisco, some crazed optimist in the Pacific Stock Exchange Tower has hired Diego Rivera to decorate a private club for...Tags: U.S. Army, California, Pacific Ocean, Family, Chesapeake Bay Bridge
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As economic crisis goes on, financial fears can push some over the edge
Baltimore Sun reportersThe headlines have had a similar ring: A Frederick County man underwater on his mortgage kills himself and his family. A man accused of financial improprieties does the same while staying at a Towson hotel. A top official with Freddie Mac, a company...Tags: Family, Finance, Delaware, Northeastern University, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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'Nothing to Fear' by Adam Cohen
Nothing to Fear FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America Adam Cohen Penguin Press: 372 pp., $29.95 Adam Cohen's cogent chronicle of the pell-mell opening months of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration couldn't be...Tags: The New York Times, Washington, DC, Arts and Culture, Emergency Planning, Disasters and Accidents
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Fighting Depression
![It has become in recent months almost a reflex for Republicans to dismiss Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal as a dismal failure of the Democrats -- a "jihad against private enterprise" as Fox News' Britt Hume put it recently. But Roosevelt's spending plan, unlike President Obama's, had widespread Republican support. In fact, he was criticized in some quarters for not spending more. And one of his chief critics was a prominent Republican.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-02/45315256-27183023.jpg "It has become in recent months almost a reflex for Republicans to dismiss Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal as a dismal failure of the Democrats -- a "jihad against private enterprise\" as Fox News' Britt Hume put it recently. But Roosevelt's spending plan, unlike President Obama's, had widespread Republican support. In fact, he was criticized in some quarters for not spending more. And one of his chief critics was a prominent Republican.")
It has become in recent months almost a reflex for Republicans to dismiss Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal as a dismal failure of the Democrats -- a "jihad against private enterprise" as Fox News' Britt Hume put it recently. But Roosevelt's spending plan,...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, The New York Times, Arts and Culture, Federal Reserve, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Should taxpayers fund the American Dream?
Today's question: Should the government get out of the American dream business? Do we really need tax preferences and subsidies for home mortgages? All week, Daniel J. Mitchell and David M. Abromowitz debate federal housing policy in light of the...Tags: Massachusetts, Family, Litigation and Regulation, Federal Reserve, Foreclosures
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Eisenhower's roads to prosperity
In his Dec. 6 radio address, President-elect Barack Obama vowed to "create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s." The story of President...Tags: U.S. Army, Robert Moses, White House, Transportation, Metal and Mineral
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America's economic meltdowns
![To listen to the pundits, one would think that today's banking crisis and financial meltdown is something rare and exotic. But those who stayed awake in their history classes know that financial panic is a familiar "plot device" in the drama of modern capitalism. Speculation has been followed by collapse at least as far back as the South Sea bubble of 1720. The American experience with such wholesale crises began in 1819.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-12/44301651-31154657.jpg "To listen to the pundits, one would think that today's banking crisis and financial meltdown is something rare and exotic. But those who stayed awake in their history classes know that financial panic is a familiar "plot device\" in the drama of modern capitalism. Speculation has been followed by collapse at least as far back as the South Sea bubble of 1720. The American experience with such wholesale crises began in 1819.")
To listen to the pundits, one would think that today's banking crisis and financial meltdown is something rare and exotic. But those who stayed awake in their history classes know that financial panic is a familiar "plot device" in the drama of modern...Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Alan Greenspan, Death, Wages and Pensions, Health and Safety at School
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