Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House. Whoever tries to stop me will die. Is that understood? I want to be heard." Twenty feet below on the floor the House was taking a teller vote on a minor appropriation amendment. At the gallery gunner's outcry the hundred members present were seized with honest panic. Most of them sprinted for the safety of the cloakrooms. Others ducked under tables. A few sat petrified in their seats. One Representative who did not lose his head was Minnesota's "lame duck" Melvin Joseph Maas, an overseas aviator with the Marine Corps during the War. Stocky & brave...
...bank closes its doors because he, the teller, has certified $400,000 worth of dubious checks. The son grows up to look exactly like Richard Dix. He goes to War, becomes an ace, causes his grandmother to die of joy when he returns. The picture ends in the panic of 1929, with old Richard Dix in shaggy makeup signing over $5,000,000 to young Richard Dix to keep the bank from going under...
...this means of further training. The letters of inquiry are without exception dignified in tone and exhibit a sense that the better a man can be equipped now, the more he can do tomorrow with the equipment. The best features about them is that they show no signs of panic. They are, on the contrary, the letters of men determined to have the employment they deserve and to fit themselves for it as thoroughly as possible. Some of the writers have jobs, some have not, but not one seems sorry for himself. Taken as a whole, the hundred or more...
...developed from domestic folly and the notion that prosperity was about to "abolish poverty." For two years President Hoover minimized Federal deficits, missed his guess as to their total size by about four billion dollars. Public distrust of Treasury policy was at the root of last winter's panic. The President was two years late getting around to budget balancing. Declared Democrat Garner...
...Cars in Every Garage?a Chicken in Every Pot. This year the election turns on larger but less concrete issues. At work below the surface are economic forces too abstract and complex for the average cartoonist to depict?the Gold Standard, War Debts, a Balanced Budget, 50¢ wheat, "Pork," "Panic," Credit Inflation, a Change. The Republicans are fighting a defensive battle on a Record that does not lend itself to easy lampooning. Ridicule of the Democratic attack has been mostly superficial and clumsy. The only new personality to enter the campaign is the Forgotten Man, and no cartoonist knows...