Word: alarmable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the great banking houses of Manhattan last week ran wild-eyed alarm. Big bankers stared at one another in anger and astonishment. A bill just passed by both houses of Congress would rivet upon their institutions what they considered a monstrous system of guaranteeing bank deposits. Such a system, they felt, would not only rob them of their pride of profession but would reduce all U. S. banking to its lowest level. They saw their deposits which they had spent a lifetime to build up and protect with their good names confiscated by the Government...
...whatever were it not for its depraved appetite. It likes to eat wood. That taste makes it immensely important to building owners in tropical and warm temperate regions. Termites do yearly damage estimated at $29,000,000 to farm buildings in the South. Seven years ago they began to alarm California. Last week Entomologist George Ethelbert Sanders of the American Museum of Natural History sent a shiver through New York City by waking it to the fact that for the first time it is seriously infested with termites...
...requires that he support her unless some gross act of hers has caused the separation. It was my wife's opinion that alimony curtailment was much harder on the woman, who had grown to expect it, than diminished income was to the man. She viewed with some alarm the prerogative of judges in this State to scale down alimony payments, believing that for some men it would simply mean reducing the wife's income in the same manner that they would cut their cook's pay, and with the Depression to use as an excuse in both...
...reach their destination in short order. Many an evening Dr. Moley passes with the President, re-viewing the day's developments, planning for the morrow. Because of his easy access to the White House and the weight of his words with the President, Dr. Moley is viewed with alarm, if not distrust, by most of the Democratic politicians at the Capitol. So are the other members of the "Brain Trust"-Rexford Guy Tugwell...
...Moley device, its authority over tariff rates and War Debt payments. In two months Political Scientist Moley has found a way to concentrate in the hands of the President greater executive power than ever before in U. S. history. That fact alone explains why Professor Moley is viewed with alarm on Capitol Hill...