Word: bogeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Administration stalwarts sidetracked the Frazier-Lemke farm refinancing bill to a House Rules Committee pigeonhole year ago, they thought they had safely laid the spectre of $3,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks contained in that prime inflationary measure. Last week the bogey rose again to haunt them after 218 Representatives had signed a petition to discharge the Rules Committee. First by a vote of 220-to-153, then by a chorus of "ayes," the House this week took the two parliamentary steps required to bring the measure to the Floor. Pooh-poohed Speaker Byrns: "The bill...
Otherwise France devoted itself last week to a screaming case of jitters. Bogey Man No. 1 was Benito Mussolini who until last week France had always assumed would be "reasonable." Highly unreasonable to Paris sounded the Italian's speech proposing to take care of Ethiopia all by himself. Therefore French Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin made haste to post off to Rome the sharpest note he had yet sent Benito Mussolini...
France's other bogey of the week was the new Chamber of Deputies which sits next month. The farthest Left France has ever gone, with 72 Communists and a Socialist-dominated majority, this was actually a very pale pink. Last week the French Press blazed with the boasts, threats and possible and probable intentions of just one man: Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Aside from France's money troubles (see p. 71), this rich old Jew last week made news at every breath...
Once again the conservative element in Harvard rose to the surface in an overwhelming majority to vote in the CRIMSON-Herald Tribune poll against the bogey of currency inflation $47-68 with 15 others feeling the issue was too obvious to vote...
...dentist drill rasping through dentine in seeming horrible search for the nerve. No lean scholar is Dr. LeRoy L. Hartman of Columbia's dental school, yet from his laboratory he has come forth with a discovery that entailed twenty years of research. As a consequence, the dental bogey man, pain, is now gone, and dentists everywhere are polishing tools for emergence out of the depression. Dr. Hartman has developed a chemical which, applied to the tooth, almost instantly kills its entire capacity for feeling. It leaves no after-effects...