Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time that Mr. Hearst made his historic visit to Topeka, Governor Landon was an ardent New Dealer. Apparently a Hearst silencer had been applied to him. How otherwise explain the Republican candidate's elocutionary efforts? He may 'condemn' in conventional fashion, he may 'view with alarm,' but this seems to be the limit beyond which he is not permitted to go. If he is a Trilby, who, except William Randolph Hearst, can be the Svengali...
Evening editions of German papers brought the blow: Adolf Hitler had decreed that the term of conscripts in the German Army should be upped from one year to two, thus enlarging it from 600,000 to 800,000 at minimum estimate, and making every Frenchman gulp with alarm. It appeared to all European military experts that the German infantry machine was being put on a footing more powerful than the French for the first time since 1914. Amid the yelps of every Paris paper appeared such cold, professional judgments as this from General Auguste Edouard Hirschauer: "It is my opinion...
...Considerable mystery surrounds the disappearance of Alfred M. Landon of Topeka, Kans., who has been missing from his regular haunts for some time. The Missing Persons Bureau has sent out an alarm bulletin bearing Mr. Landon's photograph and other particulars, and anyone having information of his whereabouts is asked to communicate direct with the Republican National Committee...
...unions in which there was no place for the mass of unskilled steel workers. Sympathetic labor historians believe that the campaign was lost less because of the savage resistance of steel-masters and their police and military allies than because A. F. of L. craft unions backed out in alarm when they saw the steel working masses moving in to threaten their privileged caste system...
...Depression, now boast some 3,000,000 members, annual sales of $400,000,000. That was only about 1% of last year's total retail sales in the U. S.. but enough to cause Printers' Ink to note : "If co-ops are to be viewed with alarm as poaching on the preserves of private busi ness, there is plenty of room for alarm...