Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fear and alarm prevail because of events in Washington which have greatly disturbed the public mind. . . . Nothing is more necessary than balancing the Budget. Nothing will put more heart into the country than prompt and courageous and united action. . . . The details plainly require: 1) prompt enactment of a revenue bill ... to distribute the burdens equitably; 2) a drastic program of economy . . . $230,000,000 below the executive budget...
Peace & Pigs! The surprise of the "Surprise Conference" proved to be that there was no Stimson-MacDonald-Tardieu-Bruning-Grandi conference last week, the whole thing turning into a somewhat comic false alarm. Premier Tardieu's sudden dash turned out to be the result of a misunderstanding which led the Frenchman to think that Britain and the U. S. were going to maneuver the Conference into excluding from discussion the Tardieu Plan (TIME. Feb. 15) of creating a world police force to be managed by the League of Nations. Upon actually reaching Geneva, M. Tardieu found Messrs. Stimson...
...establish branches, regardless of whether or not State laws give State banks the same privilege. Likewise national banks were permitted to put branches across State lines within a radius of 50 mi. in the same trade territory. This provision brought howls from Insurgents who view branch-banking with great alarm...
...Francisco's Health Officer Jacob Casson Geiger knew of very few cases. At the University of Missouri there were none; students are being instructed in protecting themselves. Health Commissioner Herman Neils Bundesen of Chicago thought that his community had only the usual number of cases, not enough for alarm. New York City's worst centre seems to be the Greenwich Village neighborhood. Vacationists have imported many cases from Europe. Partially isolated communities, like colleges, have been able to eradicate the disease when it appeared. At Smith College, Dr. Anna Root Mann Richardson had all infected girls...
...Yard circles Saturday when it was found that in anticipation of an attack on the Harvard Hall bell, newly located in the loft of the now chapel, Major Apted had placed one of his men in the upper regions of Thayer Hall. The watchman, ready to give the alarm if a light should appear in the steelwork of the chapel tower, was not, as some have said, celebrating the coming holiday. For the seventh consecutive day, however, Memorial Hall was in silence at the turn of the hour, and it looks as though the clapper case would best be solved...