Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pity, despair, of painful reform of the social system, a time when Al Capone and Richard Whitney at last went to jail and many a liberal as stubborn as George Norris at last got a hearing-a time, above all. when suspicion flourished as wildly as had the speculative fever in the days before 1929. No two correspondents could agree about President Roosevelt and the budget, the Congress, the third term. But none of them doubted that he was the man of the '30s, of the decade that ended in a fever of speculation-political and not financial-about...