Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five of its Socialist city councilmen, turned down eight out of twelve other Socialist candidates for the council, defeated Socialist candidates for city treasurer and city controller, rejected a Socialist proposal for municipal ownership of the local electric company. Milwaukee further demonstrated the extent of its current Red scare (TIME, April 6) when it returnedSocialist Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan to City Hall for his seventh term by 111,167 votes to 97,124 for his Non-Partisan opponent, Sheriff Joseph John Shinners-a majority only one-third as large as that non-Socialist city gave its famed Marxist Mayor...
...Crimson has evidently taken to heart the recent formation of the League of Yellow Journalists. Less than a week after the inception of the organization, the student body of Harvard (or, rather, that part of it that reads the Crimson) is being treated to the spectacle of a Red Scare that would make Mr. Hearst blush only because of the amateur nature in which it is concocted. It is with this amateur nature that I would take issue...
...heels of the default, Premier Aberhart rushed through its first two readings a bill enabling his government to convert its entire $160,000,000 indebtedness into a non-maturing stock issue paying 2½% interest. Best financial thought on this maneuver considered it a newfangled way to scare investors silly, then offer to refinance their holdings at reduced interest rates. Premier Aberhart's second maneuver was to introduce this week a bill giving Alberta cities the same right to refinance their indebtedness; his third a resolution to apply to the Dominion for a charter for the Province...
...annual Japanese war scare comes just before our big army and navy appropriation bills are laid before Congress. The munitions racket plunders the public funds; but when you or I call it plundering, we are told that we ought to be deported, sent back to Moscow...
Beginning in 1940, the picture voices Author Wells's current theory that another world war will start that year. The operations of that war and the destruction of Everytown, which looks very much like London, by a fleet of airplanes should throw a highly practical scare into contemporary audiences. The second portion of Things to Come contributes a reductio ad absurdum of Fascism which should cause it to be banned in Germany and Italy. The climax of the picture is an even more explicit description of a Wellsian Utopia than that foresighted author has ever divulged to his reading...