Word: scared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pistol In Miami's Negro section, Theatre Usher Jack Woodberry was hauled into court for shooting at a pickaninny. His explanation: only a pistol loaded with blanks would scare off youthful gate crash ers. Sentence suspended...
...this was more than another fifth-column scare. It was a serious matter in a continent where Nazis have already made deep penetrations. But so long as Argentina could see its danger and act swiftly against it, Argentina's democratic stability seemed firm enough to handle...
...consumer (80,000 tons a year) is the U. S.; No. 2 is Europe. Living in Spain since war began, Patino wanted to keep in with both sides. He tried to scare the Germans by dangling his tin elsewhere, but bit his nails for fear they would just bomb his Liverpool plant. He changed his mind half a dozen times about whether to come to the U. S. When the State Department failed to jitter at his Nazi flirtations, made him no offers, he came anyway...
...have long been spy-crazy. Not only is their national curiosity as huge as their stature is tiny but the people are suspicious to the point of comedy. So when it was revealed last week that 13 British subjects had been arrested as spies, the nation had a spy scare which made U. S. alarm over the fifth column look like a bored yawn. The whole nation began snooping. The Army issued a manifesto urging cooperation "in purging Japan of all espionage." Newspapers published hints, threats, alarms. Someone suggested that a British oil company had an agent at every filling...
Last month Parliament and the press finally became aware that a lot of aliens locked up during the Fifth Column scare since last May were not only friendly but valuable to national defense. Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security Sir John Anderson promised to release about 10,000 internees. Last week, however, they were still in jail and the clamor continued. London Daily Herald Columnist Hannen Swaffer exposed the treatment of 600 alien "suspects" at Pentonville Prison. He charged that the prisoners-"no longer names but numbers"-were locked in cells all day long with only an hour...