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...Hysteria. As the week progressed it became blazingly apparent that whether the Holiday was in effect or not, a moratorium alone would not save Germany from bankruptcy. She needed cash, lots of it, at once. Germany was growing hysterical. Foreign investors were withdrawing money from Germany to the tune of nearly $20,000.000 a day. German citizens remembering all too vividly the black days of inflation in 1923, were putting all their savings in foreign money, francs, pounds, dollars, and they wanted gold. Bank tellers reported that even paper dollars were spurned by the timorous. Wealthy German families were heading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Beggar No Chooser | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...professional diplomat may be true, but to base a defamation of character upon this premise is inexcusable. The harm done Germany is infinitely greater by Bulow's memoirs than by Bethmann's statement. One was the honest admission of an honest man made under the stress of the hysteria of war. The other was a political criticism by a political man issued after bitter deliberation in time of peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE | 5/12/1931 | See Source »

What is Ruth to do? Well she realizes their tragedy, but although her husband refuses even to look at his pickanniny. she clings to it. It is her baby. Escape is the only solution. Inexorable circumstances and the hysteria of her husband prevent escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...finer monument could be devised to the futility and the translent character of war hysteria than a Memorial to all who fought in the Great War regardless of what flag they followed. For now after twelve years of peace the issues are being analyzed and weighed, and the struggle is losing its partisan character...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MONUMENT TO MEN | 4/1/1931 | See Source »

...minute a brilliant red, yellow & blue macaw by the name of Toto slipped from his cage in the stately Georgian garden of Florist John T. Scheepers, flew into Alfred Kottmiller's Japanese garden and began furiously to gobble all the blossoms in sight. There was a brief moment of hysteria in the Wisteria; Toto was returned to his cage; a Navy band assisted by a soprano performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" and New York's Flower Show was declared open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Flower Show | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

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