Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the big League drum of sanctions was being beaten against Italy by British Captain Anthony Eden next door, the Mandates Commission, in a panic lest League prestige be weakened if Dr. Ito's postulates received publicity, hushed everything up last week by agreeing not to discuss them. Also hushed was evidence reaching the Commission that Japan is fortifying her mandated islands in violation of explicit mandate statutes...
...Shanghai, where well-to-do Chinese are cold to the white-hot flame of Chinese patriotism, hospital bulletins on the Premier were anxiously snatched as fast as they came in. Next day, at a rumor that Wang was dead, panic began to sweep Shanghai's Exchange. Solid gold bars- "the only safe thing"-soared up as everything else fell. Then gold receded as the Premier's condition was said to be "satisfactory." Same day Shooter Sun died of wounds...
...store windows, extinguished lights, crumpled a wall of Intermountain Union College's gymnasium, destroyed a National Biscuit warehouse, put to flight 150 bedridden patients in the Government's hospital at nearby Fort Harrison. When two people were killed, more than 40 injured, the population fled in a panic from Montana's capital, tented outside of town or slept in automobiles along open highways. To add to their fright and misery, snow came down...
...book, a straightforward narrative of speculative adventures in the sections dealing with the early years, which grows increasingly vague and general when it runs into post-War prosperity and depression. To characterize the early period Author Allen describes the Harriman-Hill battle over the Northern Pacific that created a panic in 1901; the collapse of the trust companies in 1907; the Pujo money investigation and the reform movement. His illustrations of post-War conditions include accounts of the Insull and Van Sweringen holding companies; the careers of Charles Edwin Mitchell, Albert Henry Wiggin, Amadeo Peter Giannini; the history...
...city proudly adopted "Dynamic Detroit'' as a slogan. This ambitious expression of civic pride came to have a somewhat painful sound when the automobile business collapsed in 1932 and when the closing of every bank in town on St. Valentine's Day, 1933, precipitated a national panic. Mickey Cochrane's arrival in Detroit coincided roughly with the revival of the automobile industry and the first signs of revived prosperity. His determined, jolly New England-Irish face grinning from front pages soon came to represent, not only to baseball fans but to all civic-minded citizens...