Word: franticness
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...member of the Maryland legislature, Mr. Lewis outraged Conservatives by proposing an unheard of thing, a workmen's compensation law. In 1912, as a member of Congress, he made express companies frantic by drafting the law under which the U. S. now has a parcel post system. President Wilson appointed him to the Tariff Commission. He declined reappointment in 1925 because President Coolidge demanded that he sign an undated resignation...
...almost pitifully humorous to watch the frantic manoeuvers of the New England textile owners to stem the tide which is carrying the cotton manufacturing business elsewhere. In their mad fury they hurl insults at Wallace, pile imprecations on the Administration, indeed, almost blame Providence itself because New England has ceased to be able to complete with the rising industry of the South...
...secrets of her continued dominance in the manufacturing field. But since the opening of the century, the South has begun to establish its own mills. Cheap labor, plentiful coal, and proximity to the sources of raw material give it insuperable advantages over the northern area. Under such conditions the frantic speeches of Gov. Curley and the curses heaped on the head of the innocuously innocent Wallace might cause an impartial visitor from Mars to wonder at the sanity of the northern leaders...
Conference members fumed at his absence, threatened to bolt all agreements, start a rate war to the finish unless Bernstein was brought into line. But how could he be brought into line when he was not even present? Frantic messages were sent to Bernstein's Hamburg headquarters, demanding his whereabouts. Hamburg reported Tycoon Bernstein "missing." Hopping mad, the Conference voted to postpone further meetings until Herr Bernstein arrived in Paris...
...divided into acts but shows scenes alternating between a banker's office and a city street. Time is an evening in February 1933, just before the bank moratorium. Doomed hero is one McGafferty, No. 1 Banker of the U. S. While his office ticker stutters its frantic news of crashing banks, riots, panic, and the crowds in the street mutter their comment, McGafferty faces a conference of frightened bankers, tries to bully them into a pool. While their conference is going on a group of unemployed, led by a blind man, breaks into the office. McGafferty defies them...