Word: franticness
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...Secret Police of Adolf Hitler across the border. Up to a few months ago Saar Catholics, offended by Nazi attempts to bring their church to heel in Germany, were expected to influence the plebiscite strongly, but by last week the poll seemed so likely to favor Germany that a frantic rush had begun by Saar citizens to climb on the Nazi bandwagon...
...than the prices at which they were for sale. The news flashed to London and traders sold dollars on the hunch that the U. S. dollar was once more on the road to perdition. It flashed to Shanghai and hundreds of Chinese who had sold silver short spent a frantic night in fear of ruin. It flashed to Nevada and hopeful miners began to talk of silver at $1.29 an oz., of opening new mines and such famed old ones as Virginia City and Leadville...
TIME of July 30, under the title "Not Viable," states that had Labor cut off utilities?light, heat, water, news, telephones?it would have had a "frantic San Francisco by the throat." TIME should study the history of San Francisco before making such a statement...
...habit of becoming "frantic...
...these terrorists and established peace. In 1906 the calamities of earthquake and fire threatened a reign of lawlessness. Again the responsible citizens, hurriedly sworn in as deputy marshals, restored and maintained peace. In neither of these emergencies did the people of San Francisco show the slightest sign of becoming "frantic...