Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businessmen, with approximately $45,000,000 in blocked Argentine accounts, reared in alarm. Long hoping that through some miracle they would be able to obtain better terms, they suddenly realized last week that they will only be able to get their money by tying it up as the British have done in long-term bonds and selling them as opportunity offers for what they will bring. In Washington Secretary Hull offered little sympathy. Said...
...Tokyo Alarm...
...Your account of the Premier of Japan's dinner party in your issue of July 31, is absurdly incorrect. The account gives a lurid picture of nervous excitement here in Tokyo which we who live here do not recognize. "After grim days of extreme alarm . . . tension relaxed sufficiently for Premier Saito to give a party." But the "grim alarm" and the "tension" were not enough to keep the Premier and Viscountess Saito from coming unconcernedly to my humble home the week before to drink coffee and eat doughnuts with a crowd of guests. The dinner party you describe...
Ambassador and Mrs. Grew arrived at the door just as the alarm went off-and they saw the police rushing about. But they were treated with nothing but courtesy themselves and no "screeching" of "assassins" was heard by them. Someone had punched the alarm bell by mistake thinking it was an electric light button-and of course the police on guard were at once excited and rushed about some. But your account of it all is absurd...
Whether or not the Premier and Viscountess Saito evinced alarm, Tokyo Chief of Police Fujinuma was sufficiently upset by rumors of fresh assassination plots to have posted special police guards outside Tokyo's leading business offices, banks, the homes of Cabinet ministers and to have come himself to the residence of Premier Saito where he remained personally on guard...