Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amateur plastic surgeon who altered the fingertips and features of the late John Dillinger is in prison for compounding that blackguard's felonies. But the scare over what plastic surgery can do to mask a crook's identity keeps mounting. Director John Edgar Hoover of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation writes severe letters to medical journals threatening to jail surgeons who aid crooks in this way. He puts squarely upon the shoulders of all plastic surgeons the burden of discovering whether or not their patients are law breakers. Perturbed, Commissioner Lewis Valentine of New York City...
...recurrence of a "Red" scare in the colleges--Chicago was the scene of such as event last month, and more recently Columbia--show a head for plain talking and straight thinking. No one doubt the of our universities a few students believe with adolescent vehemence in communism. Here and there a professor is an stewed (or unviewed) "Red." Larger groups of students take pride in calling themselves "socialists" or "liberals," albeit most of them have no clear conception of what they mean by "socialism" or "liberalism." A number of professors undoubtedly are hypnotized by various types of socialist theories. Some...
Month ago Yugoslavian editors flayed Hollywood for misrepresenting the Balkans' trains de luxe in the cinema Orient Express, scare-headed AMERICAN FILM LIES ABOUT YUGOSLAVIA (TIME, April 1). Last week the Yugoslavian Government suppressed as long as possible a secret which finally leaked out: for the first time any Yugoslav could remember since the War, the mail car of the Orient Express had been robbed...
That Washington has been so quick in exploding the textile industry's "scare," can be amply explained by the fear of authorities that similar emotional appeals to racial animosity may be resorted to by other pressure groups, thus disguising our real national interest as represented in trade with Japan, and precipitating a trade war. Should this nation embark on such a trade war with Japan, officials fear that our foreign trade might be realt a blow far more severe than that which the textile interests claim is threatening them...
...their own countries. England holds the key to the whole situation; without her aid other countries will hardly resort to such a drastic and risky measure. Although Hitler has made all the demands so far, the English attitude is yet to be fully formulated and determined. Despite the war scare, it is well to remember that if Hitler does not continue to overplay a strong hand, with particular reference to a navy and Great Britain, no war is likely to come in the immediate future...