Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Salvemini was accused of being one of the organizers of the plot, which included, according to the Italian government, a conspiracy against the life of Premier Mussolini. The explosion injured four people and spread panic among a gathering of Holy Year Pilgrims. Professor Salvemini could not be reached for a statement last night...
...Henry Wallace's article in the Sunday Times revealed a keen, practical man quite cognizant of the alternatives before the nation, in their long-run and short-run aspects, and alive as much to the dangers of fascism as to the necessity for national discipline. Where Sullivan in a panic indicates that the planning of our export agricultural problem may result in the shifting of the economic factors away from some regions to others, Secretary Wallace accepts this situation and discusses cooly the causes, the inevitability, and the price--material and spiritual--of the dislocations involved...
...Frenchmen: From the foreign land where a law of banishment cruelly detains me, I bow with sad emotion before the dead and wounded who, at the cost or the risk of their lives, accepted the challenge to probity and honor given by an unworthy Government in its panic-stricken impotence...
...charity hospital. She bullies her bankers. When she grudgingly gives money for a free clinic it is only for spite, to take business away from private practitioners. Throughout the years it is her aim to ruin a banker (Lewis Stone) who jilted her in her youth. During the Panic of 1907 she succeeds, unmoved by the fact that her son has married his daughter. When Hannah Bell at last finds out why the banker's pride forced him to leave her, she wanders stonily to a park bench, contracts pneumonia, recovers in time for tearful reconciliations all around. Good...
...predictable result: enterprises which they do not know how to manage are dumped into their hands. This has happened, in its most concentrated form, to the most concentrated of our financial operators, the house of Morgan. In "Other People's Money," Mr. Brandeis pointed out that during the panic of 1907 J. P. Morgan and Company demanded themselves into control of a company list which included several hundred different types of management. The second stage sets in when the money lenders, having put the borrowers into bankruptey, ask them to come back and run their businesses, Mr. Iusull's Middle...