Word: tarnished
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Left grew stronger with armed CTM and peasants' militias it became lefter still. Cárdenas' fine dream began to tarnish. Workers started squabbling among themselves. The oil expropriations became a white elephant at home, upset Mexico's international relations. Chicanery as well as well-meaning incompetence shackled Cárdenas' visionary plans...
...popular 1929 tipster stock was International Rustless Iron, whose 5,000,000 shares bounced up and down like a rubber ball. The crash put a tarnish on International Rustless; in 1932 its stock kicked around at 15? a share. Among burnt stockholders were tall, rusty-haired Yale athlete Charles Shipman Payson. socialite and horse-lover, and sturdy, up-from-the ranks Clarence Ewing Tuttle, a banker engineer from Hastings, Minn...