Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Georgia sent him to the Senate in 1807 where he served Secretary of the Treasury Gallatin in much the same way as Pennsylvania's Senator Reed today serves Secretary Mellon. Despite charges of corruptly favoring certain banks in the 1819 panic his friends hailed him as "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton...
...Therefore I have good reason to be so happy and contented while fear and panic clutch the throats of the press and the party swindlers...
...slippers and wrappers as the black-robed nuns herded them into a crawling, shuffling line down the rickety fire escapes. Querulous prayers rose in the darkness to blend with hysterical shrieks. With smoke and fire swirling about her, Mother Superior Agatha directed the exit, kept it from becoming a panic-driven stampede...
...crop under rather than take the loss of harvesting it. In Pratt County one Marvin Shetterly, unable to harvest his 155-acre stand, watched 2,800 bu. bring $100 at auction-about 3½? per bu. or less than the cost of the seed. Declared Governor Woodring: "There is panic in the midst of plenty...
...Three times a day, his shepherd dog, Rolf, by his side, he tramped the gardens in back for a constitutional, the rest of the time spent with his ministers, signing decrees that Chancellor Brüning suggested. They closed the stock exchanges and for two days, to avert headlong panic, all the banks. They selected a Federal Commissioner of Finance or "Money Tsar" before reopening the banks partially, to pay salaries, wages and taxes only. (Unemployed persons not on the dole were allowed to withdraw $12 each.) A rousing, purely Hindenburg proclamation called upon the people to be calm...