Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nanking nervous, high-strung little Chinese President Chiang Kaishek, who has been squabbling for months with the other Chinese Government (the one at Canton), abruptly resigned, announcing that Canton leaders would come north and take over the Nanking,Government. Panic stricken, Mrs. Chiang (Wellesley '17) fled by plane from Nanking to safety in the International Settlement at Shanghai...
...effect of this [moratorium] agreement was instantaneous in reversing the drift toward general economic panic. . . . I am confident it commends itself to the judgment of the American people. . . . Payments from many countries fall due Dec. 15. It is highly desirable that a law should be enacted before that date to postpone all payments during the year...
...international debt holiday was not Hoover's at all, but rather that it was forced on the unwilling President by D. W. Morrow, Ogden Mills, and bankers in Wall Street. They had no illusions about its ending the Depression, but only hoped to ward off the pending financial panic in Germany. Since American bankers had lent large sums of money to Germany between 1924 and 1928. In order that she would be able to make her Reparation payments, her financial collapse would be disastrous to the possibility of Wall Street ever regaining its money. Obviously the only...
...life-saving idea came to Dr. Warren before the 1907 panic, while he held a Baptist pastorate in Manhattan. He preached a sermon against suicides in which he cried: "I wish that all who be lieve that death is the only solution to their problems would give me a chance to prove them wrong." Next day a dozen appeared for proof. Next day more. Fortunately he had sufficient money to surrender his pastorate, raise his daughter and two sons, and devote himself entirely to his Save-a-Life League. Cases which a country rest might cure he takes...
...contortion, has snapshotted history almost in the flesh. Reading his readable chronicle of the 1920's you may be surprised at the number of events you had almost forgotten, more surprised to see that "the eleven years between the end of the War with Germany and the stockmarket panic which culminated on November 13, 1929" is "a distinct era in American history...