Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Republicans. Receipts of the Republican National Committee were reported at $5,038,419; expenditures at $4,949,428. This, however, did not tell the whole story. Republicans were making desperate appeals for funds because their receipts had fallen off so badly that they feared that they would have a $2,000,000 deficit by the time all the bills for the campaign were in. Democrats said the reason the Republican well had gone dry was that businessmen did not want to waste money on a lost cause. GOPartisans blamed their cash shortage on fear of Congressional investigation, income tax assessments...
...gain a place in the upper brackets. In other words, this type of fellow, the sediment of Bacchus, seeks to satisfy his own interests. This is a far cry from the abolishment of Capitalism, Consequently, anyone who suppresses Communism in the United States does so, not out of fear, but rather because of the annoyance which it affords...
...true that the horrible epoch of the "process themes" (i.e. "write on something which you fear") seems to be disappearing, but the mordant vestiges still crop up occasionally. And the reading, soundly conservative though it be, usually bears little relation to actual composition...
...Pittsburgh last week New York's Republican-Fusion Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia announced himself for Franklin Roosevelt "without reserve." In Washington, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace's Uncle Dan, a Minnesota farm paper editor, declared that New Deal agricultural policies filled him with "doubt and fear," said he would vote for Landon...
...been closed for 26 weeks during the paralyzing Arab General Strike (TIME, May 4 et seq.) displayed their wares, and Arab women thankfully began to shop again in comfort. Arab-operated taxis and buses were laboriously cranked up and put back on the streets. Village peasant women, without fear of molestation, lugged baskets of fruit and vegetables to be sold in nearby towns...