Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of some doubt in the minds of Comrade Litvinoff and Mr. Shigemitsu, no matter how precisely they both tried to talk. Two islands known colloquially as "Hayfield" and "Main" emerged from the bickering as places where whatever happened was passionately declared to have occurred. Meanwhile plenty of war-scare was built up by the world press out of plenty of facts which last week cropped...
...efficient guidance" in a field which stands as much in need of an organizing genius as did the cinema industry when it hired Will Hays 15 years ago. Educators have long been unsatisfied with the radio as an educational medium. Two years ago they gave the industry a scare by plumping in great numbers for the unsuccessful Fess and Wagner-Hatfield bills calling for a Federal allocation of wave bands for educational purposes. This year NBC is devoting a record total of 4,360 hours, 44% of the network's total broadcasting time, to a miscellany of speeches, lectures...
...turned out of Cuba's crowded jails. In addition, hundreds of political exiles would be free to return, even onetime (1925-33) President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado, now in Montreal where his secretary announced he would be likely to stay. If this move was calculated to throw a scare into Boss Batista's restive Congress it worked too well, for the Senators immediately forgot the budget to shriek that soon Havana would be full of dangerous scalawags and cutthroats, to say nothing of political enemies...
...much of a mystery as the scare last April were last week's gold-cut rumors. According to the New York World-Telegram the report originated inadvertently with a big Manhattan bank, which had bought $5,000,000 in gold to resell at a profit to the Treasury. Feeling that the price of sterling was high, the bank borrowed instead of buying the exchange with which to pay for the London gold. Meanwhile sterling went up, not down, and having been caught short, the bank hastily covered by dumping the gold. The fact that a U. S. bank...
Hard for U. S. citizens to appreciate is the complete confusion that overtakes The City (London's financial district) during a good gold scare. The British Empire is the world's greatest gold producer, the world's biggest investor in gold mining stocks. London, moreover, is a world commodity centre, and lower gold means lower commodities. Also, London is the world's leading free gold market. Hundreds of millions in bullion were stored in London during Depression when paper money was slipping its gold moorings...