Word: panic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrested for another offense--for "radical" activities. The opening which they thus gave was "played up" by the prosecuting attorney and much of the trial was devoted to exploiting the radicalism of the defendants at a time when the public mind was in a state bordering on panic fear of alien revolutionaries. They were convicted, motions for a new trial were denied by the trial judge, and an appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court based on the denial of these motions and on errors of law alleged to have been committed at the trial, was dismissed...
Critics, offering comprehensive reasons for his immortality, saw no prospect of his music's passing. Said the "Trenton Tough," George Antheil, he of the "Ballet Mecanique" and the panic-striking propeller (TIME, March 21) : "Beethoven is my hero especially on account of form." Said Music Critic William James Henderson: "The supremacy of tone art lay for him [Beethoven] in the identity of form and substance, of matter and embodiment...
...credit of Federal Reserve Banks is as expansive as wishes, and as flexible. Men scoffed at the Federal Reserve Bank law when President Woodrow Wilson approved it in 1913. In 1914, it was thought that the Federal Reserve Banks prevented a U. S. business crisis from becoming "a panic. In 1922 crisis came again, but no panic. The banks functioned successfully. Men who fostered the system may well chronicle themselves ancestors...
...aims. Because Mr. Loree is the railroad adviser to Mrs. Edward H. Harriman, widow of the man who organized the Union Pacific and the Illinois Central as most potent roads, such relations are important for a transcontinental trunk system. George Jay Gould tried this at one time. But the panic of 1907 wrecked him financially, destroyed his aims...
...fought with Edward Henry Harriman (1848-1909) against James Jerome Hill (1838-1916) and John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) for control of Northern Pacific in 1901. That created the great "corner" in Northern Pacific, whose shares rose to $1,000 each. But Jacob Schiff and J. P. Morgan, foreseeing panic, let the "shorts" settle for $150 a share...