Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Least inclined of all to ''shoot Santa Claus" were the Canadian Government of Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King who have been in mortal fear lest Alf Landon in the White House might crimp the Canadian-U.S. Trade Treaty. This treaty has proved one of the most potent forces in spurring Canadian recovery and the New York Times's Ottawa correspondent wired that its rupture would be "a dagger-thrust for the present Canadian Government...
...there has never been in Latin America so popular an inhabitant of the White House as Mr. Roosevelt. This week hundreds of newsorgans could be found echoing Noticias Graficas of Buenos Aires: "No one speaks any longer of Yankee Imperialism. The power of the United States no longer causes fear. . . . Mr. Roosevelt's good neighbor policy has surrounded the United States with an extraordinary dignity...
...imports in a mood of amused tolerance far different from that of automobile men overseas. In the United Kingdom the industry is so scared of U. S. and even Canadian competition that it buys full-page ads to fight foreign cars as such. Some of these advertisements attempt the fear appeal. In one, a British couple are shown shamefacedly scuttling out of their golf club, as the wife says to her husband, "I always feel uneasy here. We seem to be the only people with a foreign car." In another, an extremely British sales manager in impeccable striped trousers brings...
...model at the 1934 show being practically handmade. The strike in the Chevrolet transmission plant in Toledo two years ago temporarily crippled the entire Chevrolet organization. Since that experience General Motors has done what Henry Ford did previously-made sure of at least two sources of supply. The haunting fear of possible famine had something to do with the motor industry's new-found interest in banking parts...
...FEAR CAME-John T. Whitaker- Macmillan ($2.50). Troubled volume by a foreign correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, whose reluctant disillusionment with the League of Nations was crystallized as an eyewitness of Mussolini's Ethiopian campaign...