Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naval maneuvers, which are to take place next month involving 177 ships and 447 airplanes and encompassing 5.000,000 sq. mi. of seaways, cause churchmen the greatest alarm. Against them Editor Edmund B. Chaffee published an "Open Letter to the President" in his Presbyterian Tribune. The Christian Century editorialized vigorously. The Department of International Justice and Goodwill of the Federal Council of Churches came out with a forthright protest to the President signed by 200 churchfolk, including some of the ablest bishops, pastors, religious editors, missionary leaders and pedagogs in the land. Rev. Harry Frederick Wrard, Union Theological Seminary professor...
This state of affairs, however, failed to alarm those who knew Franklin Roosevelt from the old Albany days. He could, they were quite aware, "play possum" with rare skill, deliberately keeping in the background until "things shook down a bit" and then with one or two bold gestures reassert his leadership. Last week these old Albany friends hoped that the President was only playing such a game, that nothing more serious was the matter with his Administration...
...Received from the Government a White Paper proposing a thumping increase in British armaments, viewing German rearmament with alarm. Next day it pretended astonishment when, two days before Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon was to have arrived in Berlin for an attempt to persuade Adolf Hitler to sign with him the famed Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME. Feb. 18), Der Reichsführer abruptly cancelled the parley "on account of a cold...
...French. The French version of each scene was made immediately after the English one, on the same set. Maurice Chevalier is the only performer who appears in both versions. The French one, in which the leading lady is Princess Paley, includes a tableau of nude models, jokes which would alarm the Legion of Decency...
...Peoria, Ill., Fireman Joe Turner was on the second floor of the firehouse when he heard the alarm. He leaped for the pole, started sliding, ignited matches in his breast pocket, burned his chest, was prompted to let go. The drop broke both legs. It was a false alarm...