Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfortunately, as the Governor well knew, the Filipinos have a much greater flair for politics and political scheming than for commerce and civil engineering. Perhaps the Governor sighed. But he had really little to fear in the nature of an immediate rumpus from the Legislature, for the reason that all the real political leaders are in this country, junketing and ineffectually agitating for Insular independence...
...West is reviving under better grain prices and rapidly maturing crops. Money continues easy, and now the fear of higher rates because of crop financing is being allayed. But industry is very dull, although not sufficient wage-cuts or layoffs have been occasioned to injure retail merchandising. Even the stock market has acted somewhat weary and dispirited, despite strength in utility stocks and the better railroads...
...fleeing Senators, to protect themselves in Rutland, had on hand six members of the Massachusetts State Patrol as well as plain-clothes men from both States. For fear of kidnapping, no one of them is allowed to leave the hotel at night without a guard...
Germany. "We have shown that if Germany is loyal, she will have nothing to fear. If she is not loyal, she will not be spared." A few days later the Socialists became impatient. Premier Herriot, himself a Socialist, asked for 205,000,000 francs appropriation for continuing the occupation of the Ruhr. The Socialists thought France should quit the Ruhr forthwith, but the Premier put both feet down, took up a not unaggressive stand and said "No!" The Opposition thereupon warmed up and in a body supported the Premier. Twenty-six Communists, who always vote against everything, did the expected...
...scheme? Oh, dear, no! Following a series of un-bewildering circumstances, the millionaire fires a shot. That starts things going. The "mellow" drama gets a bit overripe and oozes "gooily" about the stage. The audience becomes pained when it ought to laugh, laughs when it ought to quake with fear. Needless to say the lovers are eventually left free to thrill one another with unrestricted mush without further discomfiting the audience...