Word: panic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hyde Park, "I had no feeling that it belonged to me" because it was dominated by the President's iron-willed mother, Sara, who bossed everybody with a benevolent despotism and frequently overruled Eleanor Roosevelt's decisions. Waiting to move into the White House during the bank panic in 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt worried about getting enough money to scrape by. "[Franklin] smiled and said he thought we should be able to manage . . . I began to realize that there were certain things one need not worry about in the White House...
...York Stock Exchange's monthly report on the "short interest"-i.e., the number of shares sold short against an anticipated decline. By mid-May, the short interest had risen 130,058 in a month to 1,628,551 shares, the biggest total since the bank panic of February 1933, when it reached a peak of 1,894,632 shares (but far below the record high...
...Hollywood's restaurants the tips were at again; the Great Panic seemed to be over. The simple reason: box-office busi-less all over...
...like a routine county council election. Laborite politicos were confident that victory was in the bag. Three years before, Labor had won 90 council seats out of 124, the Conservatives only 30. As the day wore on, party headquarters in Transport House began to worry. Worry soon turned into panic. By 4 p.m., Labor ran one seat ahead of the Conservatives. Only South London's staunchly Socialist Clapham had not been heard from. At 4:01 the phone rang. The party worker who answered it turned pale. "Clapham's gone!" he cried...
...dominated any discussion, Allen takes his readers behind the scenes of financial manipulations, to the closed door sessions in Morgan's library or on board his great yacht Corsair. Here, are some famous deals--among others the formation of U. S. Steel and the attempts to meet the 1907 panic among others--guided by the powerful hand of Pierpont Morgan. Through this description of Morgan's character in action, the reader discovers the nature of the financial world of the times, its temper and its spirit...