Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Making of a Man. Arthur Vandenberg was born in 1884 in Grand Rapids, a town famed for its furniture and its Dutch-descended population. His grandfather helped nominate Lincoln in 1860. His father, Aaron Vandenberg, was a harness-maker who was cleaned out in the Cleveland panic of 1893. After that, Father Vandenberg gave his son the stern ad monition: "Always be a Republican." In the government club at Grand Rapids' Central High School, young "Van," who had a flair for oratory, was the "Senator from Michigan." Few doubted even then that he would like to have the title...
Said TIME then: "In his own right and on his own record, President Roosevelt stood out as a figure of the year and of the age. His smiling courage in the face of panic, his resourcefulness in meeting unprecedented threats to the nation's economy and morale, his sanguine will have placed him there...
Gibson said he had found cases of panic in other units of the polyglot Allied outfits on the Italian front, but these were mostly individual cases. With the 92nd, he admitted, "the disintegration was likely to be the behavior pattern of ... patrols or platoons...
Inexorable Hand. Yet the panic and the terror seemed somehow to be kept in bounds. They were not yet visibly leading to chaos and revolt. One Swiss reporter admired the efficient way the refugees were handled, in the face of terrific Allied air bombardments. For lack of transportation, the workers slept in the Berlin factories-but the point was, they went on working. The radio said the Russians had slowed down, that a providential thaw had come to the rescue, that German counterattacks were imminent...
...Administration of President Chester Alan Arthur, the private bank of John H. James did a thriving business at the downtown corner of Whitehall & Alabama Streets, Atlanta. People used to say "Put your money there - they pay 6%." Then came the panic of 1884. The James Bank closed its doors. Its debt to its depositors, including three Negro Sunday-school societies: about...