Word: panic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Palatinate; to say nothing of the Rhineland and the Ruhr rumpusses. On top of all this, the Government tried to grapple with the.financial and food problems, both of which were growing hourly more serious. Not one constructive sign, apart from reparations, was visible in the great panorama of panic...
...content with accumulating the recording the current history of his time, Mr. Martin delved backward into sources which were then open to him, and recorded in several published volumes the financial history of Boston for a period of one hundred years prior to 1898. He covered the interesting "Bank Panic" of 1837, the second panic of 1857, the depressed times of the rebellion, and the later panics of '73, '84 and '93. Three New England railroads quoted during the first panic, the Boston & Lowell. Boston & Providence, and Boston & Worcester, fell from highs...
...Princeton, has returned to his work at that university after six months as president of a financial commission which was organized to straighten out economic conditions in the Republic of Colombia. This American commission, which was formed at the special request of Colombia, was instrumental in averting a financial panic which the minister of the treasury claimed to be "the most stupendous banking crisis which ever occurred in Colombia". Professor Kemmerer had under him on the commission several other noted economists, including Profesor F. R. Fairchild of Yale...
...time Communists held a counter meeting. Order was maintained during the procession that was formed, and then Dr. Josef Matthes began his speech: " The Separatists are animated by hatred toward none, but only desire peace, security and tranquillity." Shots rang out, men dropped dead, women and children screamed, a panic followed; the security police fired a fusillade, the secessionists replied with guns and cudgels, men, women and children fell dead or wounded. The fight was characterized by "savage brutality, particularly on the part of the Rhineland Separatists." Order was finally restored by the appearance of French cavalry and tanks. Several...
...still they come." The record-breaking number of first year students enrolling in the College would ordinarily have caused a near panic in the college Office. Last year there would have been a double line extending down Kirkland Street to Massachusetts Avenue, and the freshman class would have advertised itself by its clamoring and complaints. But this year the nine-hundred-and-thirty-and-more novices were initiated with nearly perfect organization and quiet...