Word: feare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the people of this hemisphere have lost their fear of us and would really like, I believe, to follow our lead-if we would assume the lead. The other night here in Bogotá we saw the newsreels of the Squalus rescue. The audience was simply overcome with admiration . . . and clapped and stamped as the survivors were helped aboard the Falcon. Finally the man in back of me, a Colombian, poked me violently in the back and said fiercely: "There, you ugly German [anybody with blond hair in Bogotá is a German], that's what...
Cash & Carry. But fear of war still stirred in Congress. So in May 1937 another Neutrality Act was passed. At the instigation of Bernard M. Baruch, wise old chairman of the onetime War Industries Board, it added to the provisions of the earlier acts, authority for the President to forbid the export of any goods to a warring nation except on a cash & carry basis. He never used this power and two months ago it expired...
Across the China Sea and far into the interior of Asia, 2,200 miles away, at Chungking, China's temporary capital, the atmosphere seemed brighter, even though half the people had left the city in fear of air raids. There were several mass meetings and the damaged and scarred city blossomed out in a new coating of war cartoons and slogans pasted on the walls of half-ruined buildings. That night Japanese bombers came over again in the moonlight, killed 50 persons in the city and damaged the British gunboat Falcon lying at anchor in the Yangtze...
...cannot keep out European voices. Lately the U. S. Government has been so worried about short-wave propaganda broadcasts to South America by Germany and Italy that it has considered establishing a Federal radio station to compete with them. Not to be caught napping, U. S. private broadcasters, who fear a Government yardstick station as the devil fears holy water, two years ago began to bid with renewed wattage and State Department tutoring for the ears of the South American audience...
...moonlit night last week, largely out of sardonic curiosity, 35,000 fight fans turned up in New York City's Yankee Stadium. No miracle happened. But ringsiders had to admit that no one since Max Schmeling in 1936 had got into a ring with Joe Louis with less fear...