Word: hysterias
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Last week President Hoover was aware of another quiver of economic hysteria running through the nation. The Michigan bank moratorium had jolted the country badly, stripped the R. F. C. of most of its psychological assets. Manhattan bankers had rarely looked more worried. Financiers put unofficial observers at the doors of the Federal Reserve Bank to watch the outflow of gold. There was widespread agreement with Bernard Mannes Baruch's dictum before a Senate committee that the U. S. was confronted with a condition "worse than...
Many people accept cures and stigmata t their face value, as mystic phenomena, 'hat the scars and blood exist is well attested. The late Sir William Osier called stigmata, in general, manifestations of hysteria, probably produced by autosuggestion. The Roman Catholic Church takes no official position at all during the lifetime of a stigmatic, conducts exhaustive inquiries afterwards. Last November steps were taken to discourage pilgrimages to Therese Neumann, as was done with similar European cases (TIME...
...Chamberlain. Londoners agreed that tall, hawk-nosed, black- haired Chancellor of the British Exchequer Neville Chamberlain loomed in the Empire's eye last week as a future Prime Minister because of his potent and dignified handling of the debt issue in the House of Commons where anger, much less hysteria, was never permitted to get the upper hand...
...articulated by the Harvard CRIMSON in 1925--that the game had developed into a top-heavy exhibition for the glorification of a few for the amusement of the many, and to the general public's unwillingness to play "the good fairly" any longer. "Football common" was inflated by mob hysteria, he reasons, and is now being deflated by common sense. As a result, college athletics are headed toward a simpler and heal-their condition, where there will be more boys playing the game on the field than spectators watching them in the stands...
...Communist agents in the pay of Moscow. They organized an anti-Communist mass meeting in Geneva's Community Hall. Editor Nicole urged his followers to break it up, then hold a protest meeting of their own in the Plaine de Plainpalais, the Union Square of Geneva. At this point hysteria seized Geneva authorities, who seldom have a riot to deal with. Troops were called out. the only troops available being a battalion of 20-year-old boys who had worn uniforms for less than two weeks...