Word: dooming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the cheerful cacophony as the class of 1943 was born, an ominous rumble came from college presidents. Looking gravely upon their fresh-faced flocks, assembled in chapels and halls, the presidents welcomed them with words of doom. Instead of calling their students "heirs to the heritage of civilization," the presidents counseled youth to prepare to salvage what was left of civilization after World War II. Typical excerpts...
...Kennedy worked with the appeasers, and although his faith was badly shaken during the Munich crisis, hoped settlement would be made, told Americans there would be no war in 1938. Last winter he changed tunes. With William Christian Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France, he became a prophet of doom, a skeleton at the feast. Again & again he croaked warnings that 1939 was a year of war. Certain it was that Kennedy was in Franklin Roosevelt's mind last Easter, when in bidding good-by to the citizens of Warm Springs, the President said: "I'll be back...
...years Paul Reynaud's Jeremiah-like prophecies of doom have earned him hatred from the Left and suspicion from the Right. In 1923 he pleaded for an understanding with Germany and opposed the French occupation of the Ruhr. An antiCommunist, he has long urged closer trade relations with Russia. Last September, before he switched from the Ministry of Justice to Finance, he almost broke up the Daladier Cabinet by his opposition to Appeasement...
From the tortuous, terraced streets of Chungking, frightened Chinese saw doom in the blood-red discs on the under side of raiders' wings before ever a Japanese bomb had been dropped. The people of Madrid and Barcelona learned to duck whenever they saw the red-&-yellow wing insignia of Nationalist ships overhead. Fighting tribesmen in Palestine know they must take to cover whenever attack planes sweep down on them with the blue-white-&-red wing targets of Great Britain...
...When Ruby Laffoon was Governor of Kentucky in 1934, he stayed the execution of Murderer Sylvester Warner, 24, to study his case. Fourteen months passed, "Happy" Chandler succeeded Ruby Laffoon. Years passed, 25 other prisoners marched to their doom, and still Murderer Warner, forgotten, waited in the death house. Last week Governor Chandler got around to a decision, said Warner must die this week as planned five years...