Word: alarmingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Navy men in Washington, London and Tokyo all think, of course, that it is their navy which has been "sold out by the London Treaty." Last week British sea-dogs joined with those of the U. S. and Japan in baying their alarm. In the House of Lords bayed two of the very shaggiest and saltiest sea lords...
...Administration was quick to vocalize in the law's defense. Secretary Mellon announced: "The rates in the bill as it passed the House a year ago were higher than in the bill recently signed . , . yet business at that time did not take alarm. ... I have canvassed the situation with the Secretary of Commerce, and the notion that this law is going to destroy our foreign trade . . . certainly is without foundation. ... In so far as imports are concerned, foreign nations that do business with us would do well to remember that the all-important factor is the maintenance...
...amount, 2) that Russian ergot can be and is being made into safe fluid extracts which satisfy the high standard of the U. S. pharmacopoeia, 3) that the ergot "scandal," apart from Dean Rusby's idealistic intervention, is nothing but a commercial fight, nothing at which citizens need take alarm...
...Soviet statesmen expect, fear. As Communists they are arrayed against the Capitalist world. They expect it to fight back. When President Herbert Hoover and Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald summoned the London Naval Conference a queer thing happened in Moscow. Newsorgans directly under the Dictator's thumb screamed with alarm, warned that at last representatives of the Capitalist nations were meeting to organize secretly a Capitalist attack upon and boycott of the Soviet proletariat...
...General Assembly at Cincinnati last week how it had called upon President Hoover and . . . given him "encouragement in carrying out the policies he has so courageously announced in behalf of the observance and enforcement of the law." The General Assembly, with Prohibition in its thoughts, viewed "with indignation and alarm the efforts of those who are seeking by sinister and subtle means to overthrow the Constitution, whether by intrigue, evasion or nullification." The Church "will stand squarely against any proposal that would in any way invalidate or weaken the outlawry of the [liquor] traffic." To approve this...