Word: frightener
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More than this, the Premier would not say, but it was enough to frighten bear raiders who might have attacked the franc this week, after cleaning up on the belga (TIME, April 8). In Paris rumor had it that Premier Flandin will put gold "Louis" into the public's itching palm only when paying interest on French Government bonds. He might, Paris guessed, make the interest optional, say 3% paid in gold or 4½% in paper, whichever the bondholder elected...
...general, though, they stuck closely to the spirit of an original which has been widely, if not wisely, admired for its daring fantasy. The picture contains a scene in which Neptune uses his trident to frighten the patrons of a deluxe Manhattan swimming pool, an episode in which Bacchus finds modern whiskey so fiery it makes him belch, a passage in which Hebe discovers a container full of paper cups. Alan Mowbray plays the inventor with admirable presence of mind. Meg, the stone girl who becomes his accomplice when he converts her into flesh & blood, is Florine McKinney. Typical shot...
...come up to preseason expectations this year, being handicapped by a weak ankle. Spring is a transfer student from Tulane; he played tackle on the Varsity football team this fall. With the cagers his uses are two: to give Bill Gray an occasional rest, and to frighten the enemy, both of which he does to perfection. High scorer on last year's yearlings was Byron Moser, now subbing at forward. He has a deadly eye for the basket when shooting well, but is a bit light for League work. Mason, nominally a guard, is now being employed...
...look with rousing hope. The Federal Housing Administrator, who speaks their language, has taken the lead within the Government of rallying chat conservative opinion which believes that sound recovery must wait on private capital, which opposes huge Federal expenditures that put the Government in competition with private business and frighten off the first faint flutters of returning business confidence. The other school of New Deal thought favors spending Federal funds on a grand scale for maximum social results. To the latter school belongs Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, New Dealer pure-of-heart and dour-of-tongue, who believes...
Governor Eccles is a thoroughgoing New Dealer who will do what President Roosevelt wants him to do. Yet when he was putting his ideas into the Congressional record nearly two years ago, he declared: "Such measures as I have proposed may frighten those who possess wealth. How ever, they should feel reassured that it is to save the rich and not soak them...