Word: scapegoats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brokers' loans. In the week of the panic, while frightened outside lenders were scrambling to call their Stock Exchange loans, Chase expanded its loans $373,000,000. It was National City Bank's Charles Edwin Mitchell, a rampant, bull, who became the popular scapegoat of the Crash with his insistence that conditions were fundamentally sound. Rumors that Banker Mitchell was about to quit National City persisted for a year afterward, then faded out. Currently he is in the ascendant, dictating economy to Tammany Hall. Banker Wiggin's troubles came...
...disease; in Vienna. Minister in Bucharest at the start of the War, he later dictated the peace terms to defeated Rumania, aided in forcing the treaty of Brest-Litvosk on Bolshevik Russia. Foreseeing ultimate defeat and consequent disintegration of the Dual Monarchy, he strove for peace, was made a scapegoat for his pains...
During the last ten years the College Entrance Examinations have steadily become more and more firmly established in their office of educational scapegoat. But, like the New York officials whom Judge Seabury has exposed, the academic St. Peters have shown no disposition to be ousted from their jobs by mere verbal denunciation. A committee of the Harvard Board of Overseers, in urging that Harvard discontinue entirely admission by the Old Plan, has now made a definite proposal with real possibilities for improvement...
Browne finds an interesting analogy to Christianity under the Roman Empire. "Like Communism in the twentieth century, the new religion was made the bugaboo and the scapegoat of the age. . . . There was a frowardness about it, a loud insurgency, which made it seem a thousandfold its size. (The analogy with Communism is disconcertingly close.)" When Christianity became legal, then official, it began what Browne describes as a reign of terror. "Of all the virtues possessed by the Christians, tolerance was last and least." Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum. Even St. Augustine is flayed by Author...
...fascination of their job holds show people on the stage even when they want to quit. Actually it is a glittering picture of the off-stage affairs of interesting people-of the middle-aged woman who wants to leave the stage to marry a businessman, of the dashing scapegoat son, and a girl of a younger generation who has not tried the footlights yet, and of an old woman who in the course of the action acts for the last time. Best shot: March taking his family upstairs to tell them a story while he takes a bath...