Word: bogeyman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International Economic Conference and at the Pan-American Commercial Conference, a foreign-debt bogeyman came to the Chamber's assembly. He was Thomas W. Lamont (J. P. Morgan & Co. partner) who warned against indiscriminate lending of money abroad. U. S. investment bankers are competing so strenuously to place clients' money, that they are demoralizing European governments...
...there was many an unmeasured invective hurled at Mr. Rockefeller personally. He was the bogeyman of the fundamentalists. The week before this convention the fundamentalists, unrestrained by any show of amity, had met, also in Washington, at the Baptist Bible Union of North America...
Through such methods, the experimenters approached the problem of banishing the bogeyman. Should they be completely successful, much tearful wailing, much downright agony will be done away with...