Word: panic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reichsbank since 1924. He is a stern man to deal with, imperturbable and ruthless in carrying out a fiscal program. Only seven weeks ago, when German speculators were running wild, he passed put instructions that loans to Berlin stock market operators be instantly reduced by onefourth. There was panic on the Berlin Bourse (TIME...
Merry-Go-Round. This second Richard Herndon revue with few people against many backgrounds may be dismissed as a sample of unseasoned summer hash, flung in a heap and presented in a panic. But out of respect to the memory of its saucy ancestor, Americana, be it recorded that William Collier calls Charles A. Lindbergh a "fly-by-nighter," that Marie Cahill recites a telephone monologue, that Evelyn Bennett dances like chained lightning, that Knox Herold catches the stern spirit of Bill Hart in a movie burlesque. Miss Bennett,* whilom "Baby Eva Tanguay" of vaudeville, looks like a street cherub...
...Melville. One evening last week some 1,000 residents of Melville, La., went serenely to their beds. Doubtless most of them gave their last waking thoughts to the flood waters bearing down from the north. Yet they were hardly excited, much less panic-stricken...
...Imperial Government completed triumphantly last week a fortnight of incessant labors to alleviate the Japanese panic (TIME, April 18 et seq.). Since extraordinary legislation seemed requisite, His Imperial Majesty Tenno Hirohito convoked in haste the first Parliament which he has opened since his ascension to the throne (TIME, Jan. 3). Bills were rushed through and signed by the Tenno, authorizing the Bank of Japan to extend swift aid to banks threatened with a "run." Finally, the new Premier, Baron Tanaka, secured the appointment of Junnosuke Inouye (perhaps the most internationally prominent Japanese banker) as Governor of the Bank of Japan...
...further bill passed by the Imperial Parliament authorized the Bank of Japan to lend up to 200,000,000 yen ($99,700,000) in order to restore financial institutions in Formosa which went bankrupt amid the panic...