Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more potent than most statesmen is alert, tactiturn M. le Professeur Charles Rist, fiscal expert of the Bank of France. When he and his corps of secretaries descend in these days upon a minor European capital local Treasury officials are in a panic, hope for a loan, fear disclosures. In Bucharest last week M. le Professeur Charles Rist made an announcement which rocked the Kingdom of Rumania...
...Have we gone mad? Have we no idea that if we carry this period of unrest from one week to another, a panic will break loose which all the tariffs under heaven will not stem? Yet we sit here to take care of some little interest in this State or that instead of rising above petty sectionalism and acting for the nation...
Senator Brookhart: You brought this country to the greatest panic in history...
...bobbed up during the jury-picking. Judge Davis, however, was inclined to rule that Kahahawai's guilt in that assault had not been established in court and was therefore irrelevant. One report was that the forthcoming evidence would show that a bungled attempt to castrate Kahahawai resulted in panic and murder. Another possibility was that Lawyer Darrow would claim that something occurred at the Fortescue cottage which produced in the defendants a state of temporary emotional insanity. Recalled was his success with an insanity plea in the Loeb-Leopold case when Drs. Edward Huntington Williams and James Orbison, California...
...country. Even to its own citizens the Government would be financially suspect. This would become evident in a fall in the market value of all Government bonds. Other bonds, already at low prices, would fall even further. Then would come the wholesale bank failures and general panic of which Speaker Garner warned. For Credit, mainspring of modern business, would have crumpled...