Word: feare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frantic for fear that Mr. Arnold's bombardment would smash their unions, or break a way for C.I.O. raiders, for weeks the A. F. of L. leaders have been strengthening their defenses. Shouted A. F. of L. Counsel Joseph Padway six weeks ago: "God deliver us from college professors!" Serenely Mr. Arnold went about his business, confident that this time he had victory by the tail...
...would set up a State bank system with power to issue money, or that this money would be accepted by the State in payment of debt and taxes. What alarmed Mr. Pegler was that the story of Ham & Eggs could not be told "without a sense of shame and fear," and that the whole fantastic scheme could be put forth as a pension plan...
Meanwhile, Armistice Day, the date widely feared as the time for a big German push, came and went. Belgian and Dutch nerves were calmed a trifle. It seemed certain that Germany had delivered no ultimatum to the Low Countries. Then what had the Nazis done or said to spread fear? The Cabinets of the two nations kept their own counsel, and, for once, even "well-informed circles" were singularly uninformed. Best and most tenable guess was made by a New York Times correspondent at Amsterdam...
...sovereigns wanted to let Adolf Hitler know that they would defend their neutrality, and their frontiers, together. The concentration of Nazi troops on the Belgian and The Netherlands border and the recent tone of the German press and Foreign Office toward the Low Countries made Belgians and Netherlanders fear that both might well need defending...
...beginning of the war clearly explain its origin and establish the responsibility for its outbreak. . . . The larger purposes for which my peoples are now fighting are to secure that Europe may be redeemed, in the words of my Prime Minister in the United Kingdom, 'from perpetually recurring fear of German aggression so as to enable the peoples of Europe to preserve their independence and their liberties.' " He would always be willing to examine the basis of an "honorable peace," he said, but he did not say when, where or with whom...