Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...account of themselves, and last week in picturesquely worded communiques they "repulsed the barbarians who tried to cut off our garrison and airport at Nan-Yuan, driving them off with our broad-swords." During this engagement two small Japanese shells burst just inside Peiping's Yungting Gate, but panic-stricken Chinese peasants continued to flee in from the countryside...
Solution No. i. In the U. S. this movement has produced, amid much Marxian sentimentality, such eloquent mutations as Archibald MacLeish's Panic, Public Speech, Fall of the City (TIME, April 19). Meanwhile Edna St. Vincent Millay, the best contralto of them all, has kept her verse dainty and her emotions uppermost in her mind. Last week for the first time...
...precaution against panic, French exchanges had already been closed. In Paris frightened French who wanted to exchange francs for foreign currency were refused, and banks halted exchange operations in francs altogether, except that foreign tourists were sold what they needed. Declared the emergency bill promptly introduced by M. Bonnet and promptly enacted: "Such a situation cannot be prolonged without compromising our financial independence, our military security, our social gains and the economic recovery of France...
...President of New York's National City Bank; after an operation; in Manhattan. Born of poor parents in Aurora, Ill., Banker Vanderlip was first a newspaperman in Aurora and Chicago. While associate editor of the Chicago Economist he was called upon to advise financiers in the panic of 1896. His handling of the panic won him his Treasury Department job. From 1919 to 1924 Banker Vanderlip made repeated trips abroad studying international finance. He predicted a world financial catastrophe unless all countries studied the U. S. Federal Reserve system. In 1935 he published his autobiography, From Farm...
...which Britain relies for many of her sinews of war (see below), His Majesty's Government are less favorably disposed than ever toward the Spanish Leftists, and this week official London was considering whether it may be "obliged by circumstances" to grant the Rightists diplomatic recognition. 2) The panic in Soviet Russia over wholesale "treason" and the shaky position of the French franc (see p. 17) were major indirect factors working against the Spanish Leftists. 3) Mr. Chamberlain's speech gave the impression that he thought Mussolini & Hitler were right, from their points of view, in thinking that...