Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better get busy and do something about them. To carry out this decision, which seemed to necessitate writing poems about matters of immediate popular concern, Poet MacLeish began to top-work his poetry on to popular art forms. First sizable sprout to grow from this top-working was Panic (1935), a graft of lyric poetry on the drama. This verse-play depicted a scene from the currently-expected crack-up of what Communists call Capitalism, capitalists call civilization. Most of those who saw Panic agreed that it was more theatrics than theatre, felt that it only confirmed the general rule...
...Federal Reserve System too much of its power to regulate the currency, devoted his first 15-minute speech to an unhurried introduction to his topic, happily concluded: "I thank you, fellow members of Congress, for your attention." His seven remaining talks will include discussions on The World Panic and the Disasters Following, The Remedy for Depressions, What Is Inflation? "I want to explain this Depression," says conscientious Finly H. Gray, "and at the close of the session you can't get enough time to thoroughly discuss a question...
...When this correspondent left Alcañiz-abandoned to the enemy without a shot being fired in its defense- the flight had become a general panic...
...after five working days in which 1) the directors of TVA carried their family squabble into his White House office (see p. 14), 2) the nation's deepening Recession was abetted by the shocking business failure of an old Grottie, and 3) Adolf Hitler threw Europe into a panic for the second time in a month, was the annual White House Correspondents' dinner...
...Austrian Nazis made themselves purple in the face drifting around Vienna and other Austrian cities in crowds, bellowing hour after hour "HEIL HITLER!" This gave so many Viennese the jitters that all except Fatherland Front demonstrations were ordered stopped by Schuschnigg with Austrian Nazi concurrence, ''to avoid panic...