Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortnight ago. Secretary Kellogg suppressed certain intelligence from China for fear of "unduly alarming" the people. Last week, it appeared that the intelligence in question related to the mobbing and manhandling of a U. S. man, one Butterick, at Hankow. Chinese flung at him pots of dung...
...horse races . . . the day I wore red riding breeches when presented to the Emperor of Korea (it was on this trip to the Orient that my romance with Nicholas Longworth ripened) . . . the day of our wedding at the White House when Congress adjourned without giving a reason, for fear of establishing a precedent . . . the day (19 years later) that Paulina was born and the nation rejoiced...
...sincere well-wishers of popular representative government, notably John Stuart Mill, who was fully aware to its value 60 or 70 years ago. It found acceptance first in other English speaking countries, notably Australia. What has stood most seriously in its path in this country has been the fear that, in spite of the actual simplicity of the voting, it would look too complicated to American voters. This fear has been dispelled by actual experience. Spreading from smaller cities, the great city of Cleveland with an 800,000 population adopted it in 1921 by direct populate vote as a basic...
...Film Corporation has seldom ventured into the field so completely usurped by Metro-Goldwyn and Paramount, the field of big moving picture hits. Their attempt to do so here has been successful. The fear that "What Price Glory" would be a repetition of all the war tragedies and comedies was groundless. True, it would be too much to say that the picture was original in all its details, but there was a distinct atmosphere about the film which made one set it apart...
...regard to the Fascist foreign policy I may say that your movement has rendered a service to the entire world. The great fear which torments any democratic or socialist leader is that he might be ousted or succeeded by another leader more extremist than himself. It has been said that a continuous course toward the left, a kind of fatal ebullition toward the abyss are the characteristics of all revolutions. Italy has demonstrated that there is a way of dealing with subversive forces. She has found the necessary antidote against the Russian venom...