Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese entrance into the Axis was designed to draw U. S. attention away from the Atlantic, panic the U. S. into reducing aid to Britain. It failed...
Died. Gates W. ("Silent Gates") McGarrah, 77, massive, granite-jawed financier of the old school, once chairman of the great Chase Bank's executive committee, first president of the Basel Bank of International Settlements, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank during the panic of '29; in Manhattan...
Tiffany has spent more than a century making its stamp the most upstage of all U. S. trade names. In the panic of 1837, 25-year-old Charles Lewis Tiffany opened his store in downtown Manhattan, sold $4.98 worth of goods in the first three days. A dozen years later, the firm (then Tiffany, Young & Ellis) startled rival jewelers by purchasing $100,000 worth of royal Hungarian diamonds, began gathering éclat. Still later it bought the 128½-carat canary Tiffany diamond. Big as a man's fist, priceless, the stone is exhibited on state occasions, like...
...Monday night the gloom over Tremont Street should be lifting. Flora Robson's "Ladies In Retirement" is the best murder-mystery to chill Broadway in years. And Joe E. Brown is coming to town in "Elmer the Great," which created a panic in summer theatre. What with Ruth Gordon's "Here Today" playing away to a cheering house at the Copley, you might just as well forget about the mistakes of the past week...
Sirs: TIME is no longer impartial-free. In my opinion it is pro-Ally, pro-British, pro-war- and has done all it can to panic us into war. Hence, I will under no condition renew my subscription to TIME...