Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department to report for duty to slightly startled Acting Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring. That the President had decided to waste no time inducting a new Chief-of-Staff, had made his decision in so informal a fashion, was attributed to the general world-wide war scare. No one in the Army today was surprised at his selection. But in April 1898, one would have got you a thousand that Malin (pronounced Maylin) Craig would never emerge at the Army's top. That was the month and year that Cadet Craig was graduated from the Military Academy...
...Lanky, towheaded Sidney Wood got a scare from Gilbert Hall who was leading 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 4-2. Then Wood ran out four games for the match. Refused permission to wear spikes, Czech Roderick Menzel played shoeless. Champion Fred Perry, too indifferent to win love sets, frisked through a match with one Arthur S. Fowler of Pleasantville, N. Y., 6-3, 6-2, 6-1. William Tatem Tilden II, present as a spectator, announced that Perry's strokes were bad, predicted that Donald Budge would play him in the final, snubbed an autograph hunter...
Chairman McReynolds left the White House considerably sobered. In his pocket he carried President Roosevelt's surrender to the nation's war scare. Reluctantly the President had written a memorandum accepting a mandatory, all-round arms embargo provided it should be effective only until...
...British fighting service moves-considering that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had resumed his soaking & sipping at Aix as though he had not a care in the world-struck Continental observers as illogical, fantastic and a perilous example of what is called "the genius of the British for muddling through." Scare heads in London papers suggested that, for all anybody knew, tons of Fascist bombs might at any minute blow up Malta. As George V read the papers he grew more & more excited. He, too, was not in London but 470 miles away at the royal Scottish summer retreat, Balmoral. Finally...
...power, Thompson, who preferred them to dictatorial counter-revolutionists, urged that they be recognized and persuaded to carry on the War. Rebuffed on all sides, the disillusioned millionaire returned to Wall Street, where he stunned his colleagues by speaking warmly of the Soviets in the midst of a Red scare, declared wistfully that as a capitalist he could get along better with plain workmen than with politicians & lawyers. His unique position was not understood. He became known inaccurately as the man who had given a million dollars to the Bolsheviki...