Word: panic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largely due to a man from Cleveland that the panic did not extend so far that the whole population would have left [Paris] and the Germans marched in. ?Lord Northcliffe...
...many connoisseurs the question, "Is it a good painting?'' does not occur until they have asked, "Is it genuine?" Last week such connoisseurs took note, with panic or delight, of a controversy which concerned a painting called The Guitar Player, executed long ago by famed Jan Vermeer der Delft; a painting of a young girl seated in a diffused golden light, her fingers quiet upon silent strings. One Guitar Player was bought in London in 1896 by John G. Johnson and has reposed, since his death, with the rest of his collection in his Philadelphia house. Last week, British connoisseurs...
Shrewd though modern debt and interest reductions have been, no Secretary of the Treasury will soon surpass the feats of little-remembered Secretary Benjamin Helm Bristow who, despite the panic of 1873 and with 5% and 7% Civil War loans outstanding, negotiated fresh loans in 1874 at 3% and refunded part of the debt...
Commercial progress was signalized by the fact that Japan has recovered her financial equilibrium after weathering the appalling panic of last spring. The series of business failures which then occurred forced even the great house of Suzuki into bankruptcy (TIME, April 18), and toppled the cabinet of Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki (TIME, May 2) who has been succeeded by Premier Baron Güchi Tanaka...
...street accident the curious, excited crowd impedes the recovery of the injured, so in the sinking of the S-1 there was much shouting and treading on toes that made painful a tragic circumstance, and that brings, now that panic struck hope has turned to quiet sorrow, a flood of regret and retraction. In an interview in this paper. Commander R. C. Grady deplores this troublesome intervention on the part of laymen entirely ignorant of the facts, and declares that the Navy has done everything possible to safeguard the lives of in submarines. Yesterday, even as President Coolidge insisted that...