Word: scared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Denver paid less attention to last week's war scare than to last September's. Of just one thing Coloradoans were pessimistically certain: in another European war the U. S. would again be "played for a sucker" by England and France...
...years ago, but ex-Governor Frank F. Merriam killed it with a pocket veto. Busy Mr. Campbell has already organized his Exchange, with a board of directors including top flight Los Angeles bigwigs. Los Angeles Times Editor Ralph Trueblood offered to help, was told to lay low lest he scare off California Democrats. Liberal Publisher Manchester Boddy also was asked to keep quiet, lest he frighten Republicans...
Southward Bound. The traditionally neutral Swiss had a real week-end scare when alarming news came over the border that the Reich had been massing more than 200,000 troops around Lake Constance, to the north, and near the Swiss eastern frontier. Switzerland's border guard was doubled, border roads and bridges were mined and anti-aircraft guns were in position in Basel, Zurich and other big cities. To allay popular fears the Swiss Federal Council appealed for calm, issued a statement that "rumors concerning an immediate menace to Switzerland, whether direct or indirect, are without foundation...
...accidentally shot himself in the chest. The bullet tore through his body but so tough was Earl Durand that he was out hunting again in a fortnight. He was never a bad boy, except once when he fired a shot over the postman's head to scare...
...remember now," Reinhold Faust explained last week. "The rich man question was up at that time. I was fanatic enough to do that thing. I wanted only to scare people. ... I am just a peaceful...