Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Advisory Board include Dudley E. Fitts '25, co-translator of the "Alcestis" of Euripedes, Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, whose "Collected Poems" won the Pulitzer poetry prize in 1934, Archibald MacLeish '19, author of the verse play, "Panic", now running in London after a successful season in New York, Kenneth B. Murdock '16, professor of English and consultant on the recent motion picture production of "Romeo and Juliet...
...taxes, has come back-and come back from way back. There never was such a depression in railroad history as the last one. A typical victim was the thoroughly sound Illinois Central. I. C.'s President Lawrence Aloysius Downs once revealed that after the panic of 1907, his road's revenues declined 4%. The drop from peak to valley was only 8% in the depression of the 1890's, only 20% in 1870's, only 24% after the crash of 1857. From 1929 through 1933 Illinois Central's loss in annual revenues was more than...
...miles up and down the river. Frankfort, where 1.500 families took to the hills when the Kentucky river flooded the State capital, was reported to be the scene of the catastrophe's most brutal and piteous event. As the water rose in the Frankfort Reformatory. 2,900 panic-stricken prisoners began fighting...
...shoots the sweat shop boss to get money to help his brother. As a social document But for the Grace of God has unquestionable authenticity. As a play it lacks dramaturgic heights and depths, although there are several memorable individual scenes. Example : the one in which the child workers, panic-stricken when one of them gets caught in a machine, storm the locked fire exits...
With this symbolic nightmare providing a pattern, Author Lawrence (Years Are So Long, If I Have Four Apples) has written a 307-page novel revolving around Luth's employes who are all on the run, and whose panic presumably inspires their employer's bad dreams. The office force of River, Mead & Luth, after seven years of hard times, has begun to churn with dissatisfaction; the young people want higher wages, the old hands want a raise, Luth believes he has done a great deal for his employes by merely keeping them at work. When young, excitable Gregory Marsh...