Word: bugaboo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power meeting of minds of immense significance. Premier Edouard Daladier called a special meeting of the French Cabinet at Rambouillet to discuss the precise measures of disarmament France might be prepared to take in return for the security resulting from international arms control. Meanwhile restive Paris newspapers raised the bugaboo of Germany's threat last year to withdraw from and wreck the Disarmament Conference unless granted "equality of armaments" (TIME, Aug. 1, 1932). Chancellor Hitler-cartooned by Paris Aux Ecoutes as a hawk with swastika talons hovering over the Disarmament Conference dovecote from which peep Chairman Arthur Henderson, Premier...
...open warfare in 1927 when Socony and Royal Dutch were fighting for the Indian gasoline market. Sir Henri Deterding loudly shamed Socony's Charles Meyer for buying "bloody" Russian oil. Mr. Meyer quietly pointed out that Sir Henri did precisely the same thing until Sir Henri became a bugaboo to Russia and his contracts were not renewed. Sir Henri, who not only sells his oil in every country except Russia but also markets in all the 48 States, still dominates India. With his close British friend Anglo-Persian, he sells three-fourths of all Indian oil. In China...
...State borders must to an extent be disregarded and the United States must be taken as one economic area. . . . Evil practices have hidden behind the bugaboo of State rights long enough. . . . We are trying to rid ourselves of the destructive aspects of the doctrine of laissez faire and to substitute a regulated competition which will operate more justly. If present conceptions of State sovereignty stand in the way of that experiment, it will be a calamity. ... If the National Industrial Recovery Act fails, something more radical will have to be tried. ... It is the rainbow of hope against the black...
Typical of the confusion reigning in the oil business were these rapid overturns in Texas Co. Oil's great bugaboo has been the unbelievably prolific East Texas oil field. It was discovered in 1930, a huge underground lake of oil, 32 miles long and three miles wide. Wildcatters and great oil companies had soon planted 10.000 derricks over it, drilled 10,000 shafts 3,600 ft. deep to tap the subterranean flood. As the oil spouted through 10,000 pinholes in the earth's crust it greased the skids of oil prices. Tighter & tighter the industry drew...
...York. The most violent boycott scheme came from the same Lawyer Aaron Sapiro who once sued Henry Ford for $1,000,000 for defaming the Jewish race. Acting as though there really existed that chief bugaboo of Jew-baiters, a secret international Jewish commercial organization, he proposed an international boycott of German goods by Jewish importers and commission merchants "from Vladivostok and Shanghai to Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg." He offered to organize a general staff to help importers all over the world find substitutes for German goods and send weekly bulletins to leaders of Jewish communities in every city...