Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other Texans view the Goodnight buffalo hunt with alarm. Last week they raised hullabaloo before the Texas Legislature. J. Frank Dobie, Texas historian & author (Coronado's Children) flayed what he termed "going into a corral and shooting down so many milk cows." The Texas Senate passed a bill authorizing the State Game Commission to buy all the buffaloes it sees fit and forbidding the killing of all females and any bulls under ten years. Out of vast herds there now remain in North America about 22,000 known buffaloes (protected by the U. S. and Canadian Governments), in Europe...
...financial influence exerted by 20,000,000 U. S. Roman Catholics, has written a book.-His subject was widely publicized in 1928, has been widely discussed ever since. His conclusions may be equally discussed. He finds Catholic influence "bewilderingly slight." finds Protestants who fear Catholic control guilty of "exaggerated alarm" and Catholics who boast of such a possibility guilty of "exaggerated hope...
Purpose of the Freedom of the Press Committee, so far as was revealed, is to intensify public sentiment in favor of press-freedom. Speakers at the meeting viewed with alarm the fact that the U. S. Supreme Court voted the Minnesota "gag law" unconstitutional by such a small margin as 5 to 4 (TIME, June 8 et ante). But the first specific function of the Committee will be a celebration of that vote, on Oct. 20 at Thomas Jefferson's ''Monticello" near Charlottesville, Va. One room of "Monticello," maintained by the Jefferson Foundation, is to be designated...
...various symptoms of modernity which His Grace the Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York, views with alarm, were added last week funnel ears. Gently flaying radio, His Grace said...
Like fire "buffs" who have alarm strikers in their homes, that they may up and away after the engines when a big fire breaks out, is the little group of men & women who strive for fame as flying passengers. Such a one is Mrs. Clara Adams of Tannersville, Pa. who flew last week via Pan-American Airways to Rio de Janeiro, there to board the laggard giant DO-X for its flight...