Word: crazes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round-up of persons believed to have started the original "dime letter racket" as a modest swindle that ran away and quickly mushroomed into a craze, has been ordered by Federal authorities...
Capitalizing on the British craze for commodity speculation that started in 1932, a pool lofted the price of pepper from 18? per Ib. last autumn to 31?. That attracted the attention of Indian exporters, who promptly began to shake all their pepper on the pool. By last week London warehouses were bursting with no less than 42,000,000 Ib.-a three-year supply...
...Advancement of Science (TIME, Jan. 7), "is not improved by the existence of the daily newspaper, which ... is under a greater pressure to find for its pages something that is new rather than something that is true. I venture the prediction that our present age, because of its craze for the new regardless of the true, will be looked back upon by our children's children with . . . amazement and ridicule." Dr. Millikan added that when nine-tenths of the workers in a field agree on a point, the point becomes "established...
Adolf Hitler has driven many a Jew to peroxide. Last week Nazi Ministerial Councilor Staehle sternly informed a teachers' association at Stuttgart: "Looking like a blond does not make you Nordic inside. Racial worth is not a question of outer looks. It is inner feeling. This craze for blonds, which is wasting rivers of peroxide, has gone too far. Many dark-haired people have pure, heroic German souls." Examples: Hitler, Göring, Goebbels...
Beck v. Versailles. Vastly different was the impact on the League of Nations last week of that stern, ramrod-backed bean pole in human form, Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck. Only when the craze for yo-yo tops struck Warsaw two years ago was Colonel Beck seen really to unbend, pumping his yo-yo up & down on its string with pleased dexterity. In the past year the Colonel has been on dangerous ground and he trod it firmly last week...