Word: scared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Bureau of Investigation. Attorney-General Jackson has proclaimed the superiority of this agency in combatting sabotage. But J. Edgar Hoover, the idol of all American boys from sixteen to sixty, has a healthy thirst for publicity in his own right; and his record in the "Red-scare" of the last war plus more recent incidents like the "Detroit recruiting case" afford little comfort. On the other hand, his position in an-executive department necessarily subjects him to a daily check from above, and his staff is undeniably better equipped than that of the Congressional committee...
Skulls to Cartoons. Until recently, health organizations tried to scare people about syphilis and tuberculosis with posters of gaunt men on crutches, skinny mothers spitting blood, public drinking cups shaped like skulls. Today public health educators have turned from the strategy of terror to the wiles of entertainment...
...Prospective soldiers between 20 and 40 denied any fright, spouted such remarks as: "This picture makes me more willing than ever to fight. . . ." "Far from frightening Americans, it makes them want to get busy before they are smashed as Europe's little countries were. . . ." "We don't scare...
...pondered, the Japanese continued to consolidate their gains in French Indo-China, moving southward toward Singapore (see p. 50). They worked to reach an agreement with Russia that would enable them to close the China Incident. The little yellow men were out to see whether the U. S. would scare. A firm U. S.-British stand on aid to China via the Burma Road, plus naval cooperation in the Far East, might scare them instead. If neither side would scare, there was a better than even chance...
Last week, day before Japan threw a scare at the U. S. by signing a pact with Berlin, President Roosevelt struck a blow at Japan. He prohibited the export after Oct. 15 of all U. S. steel scrap, except to Great Britain (now U. S. scrap customer No. 1) and countries of the Western Hemisphere (which means Canada). But Japan depends on the U. S. for practically all of her scrap, is U. S. scrap customer No. 2 at present. The embargo, as the Japs knew, was aimed at them...