Word: alarmist
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...Schnell, produce merchant, told him that he had $45,000 in the bank, also owned 600 shares of its stock, Customers' Man O'Connell is alleged to have told Customer Schnell that ugly things were being said of the bank, that he should sell his shares. No alarmist, Mr. Schnell hurried to the bank, told them what he had heard, produced Brother Moses Schnell as a witness. Thereupon the bank took a bold step, ordered the arrest of Mr. O'Connell...
...London last week viewed the international situation with misgiving, 'unmitigated gloom' would be the only phrase to characterize this week's mood. Only on one or two occasions since the war has the British capital indulged so openly in alarmist talk...
...Ottawa local newsdealers took an alarmist view, said that the new tariff on U. S. periodicals would force them to raise prices so much as to decrease their sales drastically. They predicted "dire unemployment" in newsdealer ranks, for readable Canadian magazines...
Contrary to alarmist reports, picturing the Casino as well nigh bankrupt by competition from newer, smarter gambling places, the year-end report released last week showed profits to the Casino Company of 122,000,000 francs...
...Golden Harvest?" Alarmist reports from the Empire's trade frontiers undoubtedly tended to weaken the employers front in Lancashire. The potent Rothermere press envisioned Germany and Japan as "likely to acquire, perhaps permanently" a huge volume of business sure to be lost by Britain in the event of a long strike. "The textile mills of Northern France are working at top speed." warned Viscount Rothermere's Daily Mail, "and they will reap a golden harvest of orders that ordinarily would go to Lancashire. . . Even Poland is reckoning on big profits...