Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publisher Eleanor Patterson, sister of Publisher Joseph M. Patterson of the proletarian and pro-Roosevelt New York Daily News, ran an open letter headlined WHAT YOU COULD SAY, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. In it she took the President's "dare" to tell him exactly what to say "that would banish fear." Cissie Patterson's remedies...
...said once, with eternal truth, that the only thing to fear is fear itself. Fear is depressing industry. With due respect, you should concede the obvious: This fear is fear...
...Admitted that fear of what the Administration may do next is a primary factor in the current Depression. The admitter: Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper. Said he at a press conference: "We are stalemated by the fear of fear, the fear of each other. . . . Unreasoning fears, engendered by criticism of our processes of Democratic government, have undoubtedly contributed to the recent decline...
Closely following protest of 17 aged G.A.R. veterans, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and vigorous opponent of the Teachers' Oath which Hicks has already taken in New York, said: "I am very much surprised at the fear expressed by the Veterans and their friends. Mr. Hicks will take the Teachers' Oath before entering upon his duties, and therefore all will be well...
...Forthright account by the wife of Anthropologist Julius Lips (The Savage Hits Back) detailing the steps by which Nazis forced her husband from his post as director of the Museum of Ethnology in Cologne, then into exile-by searches, denunciations, cooked-up charges, a steadily intensifying atmosphere of fear...