Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...threatened by aggression in pursuit of such a policy as I have described. We therefore welcome the cooperation of any country, whatever may be its internal system of government, not in aggression, but in resistance to aggression. . . . We cannot live forever in an atmosphere of surprise and alarm from which Europe has suffered in recent months. The common business of life cannot be carried on in a state of uncertainty...
...Orson Welles, in his now famous broadcast of October 30. 1938, had announced not that the Martians had landed in New Jersey, but that a mosquito called Anopheles gambiae, a native of Africa, had arrived on the American continent, there would have been no public alarm. . . . But Anopheles gambiae is potentially a much more dangerous invader than the Martians would have been. H. G. Wells's Martians, it will be remembered, were unable to adjust themselves to life on this planet and quickly died...
...Governor, George Howard Earle III, went down to defeat last November in a thick smoke of graft charges which hung like a pall over the election. Last week the grand jury of Dauphin County (Harrisburg), which had been peering into the smoke for three months, turned in a fire alarm...
...reversed its field, has since been on an anti-trust rampage. But a large group of New Dealers (such as Economist Leon Henderson) have continued to favor the NRA approach. With creation of the "business appeasement" policy, they have begun to emerge from the New Deal doghouse, to the alarm of more left-wing New Dealers (such as Lawyers Tommy Corcoran and Ben Cohen, Economist David Cushman Coyle). Last week's blast against steel was meant to chase the NRA advocates back into the doghouse for good. Instead it caused considerable barking...
Economist John T. Flynn, a close friend of Willis Ballinger and a professional viewer-with-alarm, popped up with a set of charts to show that "collapse" of the durable-goods market is due largely to monopolistic conditions. FTC Attorney PGad B. Morehouse developed the commission's belief thaft price control is the chief handmaiden of monopoly. And Princeton Professor Frank A. Fetter explained monopoly: "It is derivative of two Greek roots, 'monos,' alone, and 'polei, to sell, and it occurs in the Greek in two forms, feminine and neuter, 'monopolia and 'monopolion...