Word: feare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unsuccessful participants, however, in international affairs," he said, "because of three factors: our suspicion that the other fellow is going to put over some Machiavellian trick on us; our Senate cannot move deftly and rapidly enough to keep pace with the international parleys and agreements; and our fear for sovereign rights...
...Administration, however, has no intention of confining its strenuous strivings for Federal regulation of a great natural resource to a mere code. But Vice President Garner and some of Mr. Roosevelt's best legislative friends are good Texas Democrats who mortally hate & fear the thought of Federal meddling in their State's biggest business. It was the Texas delegation that succeeded in shelving the toothy Thomas-Disney oil control bill in the last session of Congress. Even last week Texas' Congressman Sam Rayburn, who chairmans the powerful House Interstate Commerce Committee, took time out to thunder...
...lost who uses this book as his first text of Americana. For those who are acquainted with the troubles through which the people of the day passed the reminiscences will prove most interesting to follow. The account is not a mere Schlesingeresque list of facts as some may unfortunately fear, but it is a story of those years written in a most readable manner. For those who look to it as a reference for certain idiosyncrasies of the period it offers a wealth of information, which as far as can be discerned is most accurate, and extremely enjoyable reading...
...that tea-growing island off the southern tip of India. Last week's dispatches mentioned 250,000 cases, 3,000 deaths in a single district. In some villages nine out of ten people have been stricken. What the British administrators who govern Ceylon as a Crown Colony mostly fear is that the Ceylon epidemic may spread to the Indian mainland and rouse a plague like that of 1908 when in the Punjab alone 3,000,000 people died of fever...
...Ford, selling an eight against Plymouth and Chevrolet sixes, has considerable difficulty in even holding his own. Messrs. Coyle and Hutchinson certainly do not reciprocate Mr. Ford's indifference to competition but they are by no means in mortal terror of the Man of Dearborn. What they fear, if anything, is a new force evident in Ford merchandising. And that force is powered by Edsel Bryant Ford, 41, heir-apparent to the last and greatest personal empire of U. S. industry...