Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President received two onetime Governors: Henry J. Allen of Kansas, Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. Later, Mr. Allen expressed the fear that Mr. Coolidge's economy talks were creating an unwarranted "buyers' strike," thereby injuring business. Mr. Lowden pointed out that there is still distress on many farms...
...neighborhood work has been carried out in a very dilatory and hap-hazard fashion. That this was the fault more of the social worker himself than the officers of Phillips Brooks House, has always been apparent. But this fact, however deplorable, has been smoothed over year after year for fear of hurting the feelings of those in charge of the enterprise...
Came a craven fear so damning...
...heart with fear was quaking...
...segregation test. Three main arguments for segregation have been given first, that flaunting of crime news on page one under banner lines has encouraged crime, while segregation takes the glory out of it; second, that the crime page can be slipped out and the paper given to children without fear of them reading material that might be detrimental to minds in the formative stage; and third, that the political international news stories is the real news, and segregation of crime stories gives readers a chance to get what they want without searching for it among a series of crime stories...