Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlanta Journal's Washington correspondent, Ralph Smith, is a quiet, iron-grey, genial Southern gentleman who manages to cover the news without ever seeming to hurry. Newsman Smith, uniformly good-humored (unless someone clapper-claws his idol, Georgia's Senator Walter George), is not given to hysteria. But last week House clerks told him that the Seventy-Seventh Congress, in its first 100 days, had voted appropriations totaling $16,091,543,000. For his readers' benefit, he spelled it out: "sixteen billion, ninety-one million, five hundred and forty-three thousand dollars." Newshawk Smith then went...
...Administration is trying to whip up hysteria in favor of conveying goods to England," asserted Professor Hankins, who believes that "convoys mean doughboys...
...fully awake to the threat of Europe's war, the possibility of a bombing attack is as remote and unreal as an invasion from Mars. Yet military men know that such an attack might, become real. They also know that even a minor raid might cause catastrophic mass hysteria. Sixty minutes of hokum in an Orson Welles broadcast three years ago gave them a rough idea of what could happen...
...they fight for reasons of self-interest, are doing more to defeat Nazism than--say, the Progressive editors. Yet withal one may still regret, as do the editors, that we have become so bundled up with Britain. Certainly the defense drive has carried with it anti-laborism and undemocratic hysteria; certainly the dollar-a-year men are making every penny count in the defense of their class interests; certainly the American Century is not an epoch most democrats would enjoy living in. Whether one can do more than just regret, now that the United States is so thumpingly committed...
...Hysteria Feared...