Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months. But some tricks of World War I's drives will be pointedly omitted. This time no church bells will toll as a "dirge for slackers"; no "four-minute men" will yell at pedestrians through megaphones; no persistent Boy Scouts will push doorbells; no grisly posters will scare moppets. This time the Treasury will avoid high-pressure salesmanship, lure savings by a simple but fast-moving patriotic appeal. Some details...
...Theodore Roosevelt mustache, McNamara told reporters: "They say I will swing for this, but if I swing it will be for a principle. ... I am guilty, but I did what I did for principle and I did not intend to murder a man. ... I meant only to throw a scare into those fellows who owned the Times. ..." All over the U. S., workmen who had rallied to McNamara were sickened, union leaders went into hiding. James McNamara was sentenced to San Quentin for life. His brother served ten years. A fellow dynamiter named Matthew Schmidt also got life. Thirty-eight...
...didn't know much about China. He had never taken Chinese 10a at Harvard or read more than an occasional heading in the newspaper about how Uncle Sam was lending China lots of money as sort of a scare to Japan and Hitler. But he wasn't quite sure about how that worked except he had a faint suspicion we might not get the money back. He didn't know much about Chinese culture except for the few "Confucius Say's" that went around the country a couple of years ago. Every now and then they flashed some picture...
Relations between Tokyo and the London-Washington Axis were tense in the midst of the Far Eastern war scare. The Japanese, who had started the scare, were dismayed at the length it had gone. To their protestations of peaceful intentions U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles coldly replied that the U. S. was interested in deeds, not words, and Congress voted an appropriation to fortify Samoa and Guam. At this point Ko Ishii bustled into his press conference and suggested that the U. S. restrict its activities to the Western Hemisphere. Then...
...Late. At week's end, general feeling in the Far East was that the scare had been a trial balloon, sent up to find out how Japan's potential foes would act. It was not quite so simple as that...