Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when it was submitted to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, courses such as banking and accounting were included. In the spring of 1907, F. W. Taussig '79, professor of Economics assumed the task of raising funds for the "Graduate School of Public Service and Commerce." But the panic of 1907 precluded all plans...
...wilderness, Secretary Hull long predicted ruin and woe from G.O. Policies on tariff and foreign affairs. Again & again he harped: "The practice of the half-insane policy of economic isolation during the past ten years by America and the world is the largest single underlying cause of the world panic. The mad pursuit of economic nationalism has proved disastrous...
...Berlin Stock Exchange. For four weeks in happy anticipation of a Nazi New Deal, the Berlin Bourse had boomed. Fortnight ago brokers announced that many issues were selling 300% above their crisis lows. Last week it crashed. Stocks dropped 20 to 30 points. There were moments of panic selling. Meanwhile the world fight against Nazi Jew-baiting continued...
...public address, as well as shouts "Get that man" etc. Inasmuch as there were some 25,000 people in the crowd, including the usual percentage of women and children, it required some rather fast thinking to decide whether or not to proceed with the broadcast and create a panic, which no doubt would have resulted in accidents and deaths as the result of a stampede, or whether to take some steps to quiet the crowd, as there was no way to cut the public address system off from the point where our broadcaster was picking it up; he tried...
Last act of Three-Cornered Moon is even more erratic than the first two. The brother passes his examination. The novelist is dismissed. While lunatic panic sweeps through the house Elizabeth and her businesslike sweetheart settle themselves on the stairway for a little lovemaking. It is 6 a. m. Mother Rimplegar wistfully wanders in mending...