Word: scared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...response to this gentle warning, the Republican Committee let out a full-throated bellow. "The Republican National Committee," it roared, "will welcome a few prosecutions, instead of just intimidating propaganda designed to scare people, to stop them from talking about high taxes imposed by the New Deal. . . . What is the Department of Justice going to do to Governor Alfred M. Landon? At Buffalo he said that people paid 2? taxes on every loaf of bread...
...part in last week's show. Rubber sold above 16½? per lb. for the first time since 1929. In one day silk shot up 5? per lb. to $1.67. The Annalist's wholesale commodity index registered the sharpest weekly gain since the 1933 inflation scare. Only items likely to be depressed by drought are meat and hides, and those only temporarily. Slaughtering of cattle in drought areas increases the immediate supply. No trade was more agog about the commodity boom last week than the butter market. Like eggs, butter has an annual cycle in prices and production...
Benito Mussolini used them to scare Stanley Baldwin, who received disquieting news that in the Mediterranean Fascist Flea Boats were running circles around Britain's most potent dreadnoughts, obviously able to dash in for quick, close, suicidal work with torpedoes had Il Duce so ordered. Last week His Majesty, arriving at Portsmouth Naval Base in the gorgeous uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, was mobbed by sailors' girls who broke through police lines and jumped on the running boards of his car cheering in the rain. Putting on an oilskin over his uniform and tossing the white-feathered...
...John Henry Evans-Macmillan ($3.50). Of all the restless religious sects spawned in the U. S., Mormonism went furthest, made the biggest splash. Nowadays as settled and respectable as any other church, in its early years it roused its neighbors to a fury of apprehensive persecution, even threw a scare into the U. S. Government. Present-day "Gentiles" know little of Mormon history, few Mormon heroes except Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. After reading Charles Coulson Rich they could add another name to their list of Latter-day Saints, many an historical fact to a little-known tract...
Soon French workers singing the Internationale were sedately parading around with figures of capitalists whom they had hanged in effigy and a great scare shot through bourgeois Frenchmen, including their spat-wearing new Premier who is a Socialist by party but no revolutionist at heart. In his new fear Premier Blum finally announced that, although French police would not arrest occupiers of factories, they would suppress any disorder in the streets. That night jumpy Socialist Salengro, Minister of Interior, called to Paris steel-helmeted gardes mobiles with rifles in their hands, bade them keep gimlet eyes on his own Socialist...