Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week he appealed again to them for group support in a nationwide radio broadcast from the White House arranged for "Hoover Day." In a speech packed with Home. Faith, Idealism, Child Welfare, Spirituality, Moral Leadership, he pointed with pride to his administration, viewed Democratic policies with alarm...
...itching to take it was an assorted chorus of vociferous henchmen the like of which was nowhere to be seen on the G. 0. P. battlefront. That no Republican was alert enough to bunch these Democratic helpmates?by no means the cream of the party?and point with alarm to them as the ''men behind Roosevelt," was viewed as a reflection upon the intelligence of the Hoover managers...
Viewing with Alarm. These accomplishments have not silenced many a Louisianan who views the Long record with utmost alarm. The "Kingfish's" critics point out that he has raised the State's indebtedness from $11,000,000 to more than $100,000,000. The public payrolls have been loaded down with his fawning followers. Under him New Orleans has slipped from second to fifth among U. S. ports. Prisons are so overcrowded that last week Governor Allen had to release hundreds of offenders to save money. The gasoline tax has been upped from...
...Washington, Republican Senator Wesley Livsey Jones, longtime Dry, was renominated over a Wet. For the Senate, Democrats picked Homer T. Bone whose brother Scott used to be Governor of Alaska. Nominee Bone, an ardent "public ownership" man, is viewed with alarm by conservatives who will support Senator Jones. The Jones-Bone fight in November is expected to be close. Here again Demo-crats upped their primary vote in two years from 16,000 to 154,000 whereas Republicans let theirs fall from 297,000 to 170,000. Roland H. Hartley, Republican Governor for the last eight years, was defeated...
...country. Convened in its 14th national convention the Legion, as expected, declared for full, immediate, unconditional payment of the Soldier Bonus at a cost of some $2,300,000,000 to the Treasury. Public esteem for the Legion throughout the land instantly, visibly ebbed, changed to alarm...