Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minority of one. Congressman John E. Nelson of Maine, disagreed with the Red picture of his colleagues, decried the "hysteria" over Communism, declared: ''Our best defense against the red shirt of the Communist and the black shirt of the Fascist is the blue shirt of the American workingman...
...Communistic principles or whether he shuns them as sheer anathema, such a study of history reveals that revolutionary propaganda thrives under oppression. The recommendations of the Fish Report once put into execution might not only supply food and nourishment to hundreds of Red publications, but also produce an hysteria throughout the country on rather dubious premises. To arouse the expectation of economic and social unrest would do little to assure business stability...
Campaigners against Cancer try to avoid scaring the public about Cancer. They feel there is already enough hysteria on the subject. Clarence Cook Little, who since his resignation as University of Michigan's president directs both the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory (heredity & cancer) at Bar Harbor, Me., and the American Society for the Control of Cancer, remarks in Cancer: "By the publication of quack cancer 'cures' and the premature, unintelligent and overenthusiastic publicity on many 'new treatments' the press has built up unfounded hopes to be followed by a bad mental reaction in thousands...
...bank's depositors, many of whom were in line by 9 a. m., the news brought some hysteria. To the Stock Exchange, unsettled all week by fear of this development, the news brought uncertainty, alternate selling and buying. To the market in bank shares it brought much selling. If the Bronx merchant who had tried to sell his Bank of United States stock the day before had succeeded, he would have received 11½a share. After the closing, he would have been lucky to get more than $3. Last year this stock sold...
...average preparatory school man's impression of college is gained from the hysteria of football games and his own preconceived notion of the university as a larger edition of his school. Some of these men when they enter the freshman class, are either disillusioned by the prosaic and unromantic nature of the college routine, or else they find the freedom and opportunities for pleasure too tempting and lose their heads with the new freedom...