Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While President Hoover was sitting with his Cabinet one morning last week, an alarming report reached his bodyguard. Police reserves tramped into the White House grounds, deployed, guarded the gates. Pennsylvania Avenue shrieked with motorcycle sirens. Secret Service men issued curt, severe commands. Excited newshawks flocked about. Cameramen looked to their plates. Trucks bearing sound newsreel equipment lumbered up into position. Idlers paused, gaped, made throngs. When Vice President Curtis left the Cabinet Meeting, a bodyguard hopped into his car beside him.* All was in martial readiness about the White House to meet a reported Red demonstration for Unemployment relief...
...Edgar Borah, who refuses all invitations to go to Europe, broadcast last week to Europe. The whole Continent tuned in. Oppressed nations look to the ponderous, fearless Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee as their greatest champion. Oppressing Great Powers view him with logical alarm. As millions of eager, ear-straining Europeans crouched over their radio sets they heard the Senator's sonorous words and rumbling periods punctuated and all but drowned by astounding catcalls in a dozen languages, women's shrill screams, the roars of fistfighting men and altogether the most remarkable...
French babies are not brought by a stork; they are delivered by a rabbit in a cabbage patch. But in Alsace, where German folklore survives, the stork is still the solemn patron of the childbed. France, whose declining birth rate is a national problem, viewed with alarm a last week report on stork nests in Alsace: In 1927, there were 270; in 1928, only 150 were occupied; this year, only 53 in all Alsace...
...record for it every year since 1917. But President Hoover has only vaguely encouraged the idea. Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur announced his forthright opposition to a Department of Education. Because of this. Dr. James McKeen Cattell, able editor of scientific periodicals, onetime Columbia professor, expressed alarm last September at a "Memorandum of Progress" which the Advisory Council published in July 1930 intimating that a Federal department would be disapproved. Dr. Cattell called secretary Wilbur and President Suzzallo creatures of "private philantropic trusts." He sent out a questionnaire to pedagogs. whose answers purported to be a "damning judgment...
...shown in the recent Sino-Japanese crisis is found in the fear of another world war. Predictions have been made since the last great war that the next one would start in the Orient. In the present disturbance people see the possibility of these coming true. In their alarm they lose track of the tremendous result which this contest may have beside which another world war is insignificant...