Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somehow the doughty diplomat staggered across the street to Achilles Orphanos' delicatessen store where the alarm was sounded. An ambulance carried the chief representative in the U. S. of the Government of Salvador to the Emergency Hospital where 27 stitches were taken in his head. X-rays showed a fractured skull...
...members were to march from the Battery to Manhattan's Empire State Building, there to form a "living flag" while 25 cast-iron pigeons were released from the dirigible mooring mast on the tower. Vox Humana Moore had many another point to make: 1) He viewed with alarm the Guild's dwindling deficit: nothing but a membership drive would restore the deficit to its former whopping dimensions. 2) Fellow Pumper Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, had promised to have the Guild's diplomas listed on the exchange. 3) Despite the venomous gossip...
...state of industry. Ready for its consideration was a carefully prepared report against increased Federal taxes, extrava- gant public building programs, application of all the sinking fund allotment and foreign interest payments to public debt retirement. This meeting Michigan's millionaire Senator Couzens last week viewed with loud alarm. In a sarcastic statement he declared that the business men meeting in the "Rose Rooms" or the "Pompeian Rooms" of Atlantic City hotels would doubtless resolve against any interference with their affairs by the U. S. Government. To this Senator Couzens retorted that unless Business, as represented by its national...
...bandit alarm spread through the Standard Company's fruit plantations about Logtown. At Moss Farm, U. S. overseers and their assistants gathered to catch a company train down the narrow-gauge to safety. Before they knew it, the marauders were upon them. Overseers John Humphreys Bryan, Percy Davis. Hubert Ogelvie Wilson and William Bond Jr., all Standard employes, were butchered, their heads hacked off. Wounded. James Lloyd dived into a ditch, feigned dead until the bandits left. Cathey Wilson escaped by jumping into the Wawa River, hiding two days in the jungle...
...Hornaday also viewed with renewed alarm a rival organization which does not want to limit or scare duckhunters, believing that commercialization of hunting rights and game will cause farmers to breed game birds sufficient to stock the country (TIME, Nov. 24). His letter said: "We have been watching the 'More Game Foundation' with . . . some anxiety. . . . And we must say that the first real action of the new group has gone far beyond our fears. The Foundation has caused to be introduced into the New Jersey legislature a bill ... to legalize game breeding in preserves, and game shooting and sale...