Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf Hitler and other war boojums who tend to scare the British public which, when scared, always votes Conservative...
...beneath the notice of the American Legion, Friends of New Germany and other illiberal groups. But Waiting for Lefty, aside from forcefully presenting the case of capitalist labor racketeering, was such a whacking good show that it became the target of a suppression campaign unequaled since the great Red Scare...
...circulation of Hearst's newspapers must be falling off. The New York American has evidently found the Collegiate red scare insufficient and has therefore added a Fascist or "black" scare to its already horror-stricken editorial page. All in the same breath, with no hint of the fact that in itself it has recently been driving towards Fascism, it now violently and somewhat ludicrously attacks both Communism and Fascism in the schools and colleges. In heavy type, it urges American parents to "STOP SENDING THEIR CHILDREN TO INFECTED SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES AND EXPOSING THEM TO THESE POISONOUS ALIEN PLAGUES...
...look over studio sites for the companies of which he is president-United Artists and Twentieth Century, youngest and liveliest of the producing units whose pictures United Artists distributes (TIME, March 18). All but credulous Florida boosters supposed that his real purpose was to help the industry scare the California Legislature out of passing a proposed 35% income-tax bill. In Florida, Producer Schenck conferred with President Sidney Kent of Fox, ostensibly about a wild plan to have Florida put up $10,000,000 by popular subscription to build moving picture studios. Last week Presidents Schenck and Kent revealed what...
...sweethot, should delight those of Actress West's admirers who are especially entranced by her facility in making a stale gag seem fresh by reciting it as though its real meaning were unprintable. Good shot: Mae West's Indian retainer firing off blank cartridges to scare her jockey into winning a horse race at Buenos Aires...