Word: bugaboo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admirals and Senators and Big-Navy propagandists in terms so frank as to stir up a hornet's nest if now made public. Conceivably the President might have analyzed in uncomplimentary fashion the attitude of the Navy's General Board on cruiser limitation or the anti-Japanese bugaboo of Senator Hiram Johnson of California, chief Senate opponent of the Treaty. Conceivably Mr. MacDonald might have expressed sympathy with Mr. Hoover's difficulties...
Johnson's Army. Senator Hiram Johnson, aware of the Japanese bugaboo in his great State of California, last week definitely placed himself at the head of the tiny Senate army opposed to the treaty. He commanded about a dozen votes. To beat the pact, he needs 33 (one more than one-third of the 96 Senators). To gain time to muster new recruits, "Captain" Johnson demanded, apparently without hope, that the pact go over until the December session of Congress. President Hoover and Senators actively supporting the treaty were less concerned at the numerical size of the Johnson army than...
...need small unit banks. Farmers drive over paved roads to the larger cities to do their banking. . . . Why in the world can't we have nation-wide branch banking? If you have nation-wide branch banking you'll get away from this Wall Street bugaboo. . . . Branch banking will make 20,000 small bankers in this country rich...
...most communities that bugaboo of mothers, Measles, follows a nicely defined curve. One year the disease will be prevalent, the following year rare. In one pair of years in Manhattan the ratio was 20:1. Last year was the low point of the curve; this year is a measles year. Manhattan's public health officials are getting into action, preparing to combat the malady...
...Heard Wisconsin's Nelson flay "The Japanese Bugaboo" in connection with a plea for a free Philippines...