Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tribune v. Kellogg. Many a Paris news organ prominently quoted with alarm, last week, a truly amazing editorial in the usually 100% Republican New York Herald Tribune, famed Wilson-baiter...
Last week, Gov. Strong was again in Europe. And his Manhattan supporters noted with alarm that Chicago was showing distinct signs of insubordination, was even pretending to take the lead in the intricate business of money-juggling. Boldly, the Chicago Reserve Bank recalled its warnings of last fall, pointed to diminishing credit reserves and wild speculation, jumped its rediscount rate to 5% (TIME, July 23). Manhattan, accustomed to lead, was forced to follow. Chicago's press openly flayed the absent Gov. Strong; screechingly demanded his resignation...
...hair curled. Writer Rider vouches for the accuracy of her report, which was published that afternoon and to which Mrs. Blair took no exception at the time. The Houston Press vouches for Water Rider's journalistic integrity. TIME joins the United Press in deploring misquotations, in viewing with alarm Mrs. Blair': "idiotic position...
...Brady's husband is Nicholas Frederic Brady, famed Manhattan financier. Subscribers to Heflinism, persons who mortally hate and fear the Roman Pope, recalled with alarm that the Bradys...
Three groups, including 10,000 railroaders, met at Atlantic City for a searching probe into revenues, costs, competition. They listened to contradictory advices. How should the railroads view the competition of motor trucks and busses? With Alarm, declared M. B. Lambert, transportation salesmanager for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., pointing to decreased equipment orders, decreased business for local, branch line, short-haul services. With Satisfaction, retorted Interstate Commerce Commissioner Frank McManamy, insisting that short-haul freight, short-distance passenger service, brings little or no profit to railroads. With Determination, compromised R. H. Ashton, president of the American Railway Association...