Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the war-scare headlines simmering down to more announcements of mild notes of protest by England to Germany and similar action in the offing by France and Italy, world citizenry can once more relax and review the situation calmly over the breakfast coffee. Hitler, with his usual flair for the dramatic, has timed the action to the minute and left the other countries gasping for wind...
Next, our criminal would counterfeit billions of dollars of United States money and distribute it haphazardly among the poor. This inflation would not scare business men, but give them profits. The poor at the same time leave us. Employment would increase. Recovery would have arrived...
There is no graver portent in American life today than the determined effort to create a 'red' scare and exercise a censorship over our colleges and universities. If this campaign of terrorism and hysteria should succeed it would sound the death knell of academic freedom everywhere. Censorship by government, such as ruined the German universities overnight, is dreadful enough, but censorship by an irresponsible press which stops to dishonesty, trickery, and deceit to achieve its ends and by self-appointed super-patriotic guardians is worse; for that means censorship, passion, and prejudice and the beginning of an academic lynch...
Although earlier in the day Dr. Paul H. Means 17, medical adviser in the Hygiene Department, had announced that the German measles epidemic scare had proven false as far as Harvard was concerned, two more victims appeared in Stillman last evening with a rash that indicated, a new outbreak of the insidious disease...
...moment it was forgotten that they were used in the United States Senate Restaurant and it was feared that the elder brothers of the N.S.L. had been at work. When the situation was realized things had gone so far that the only way to avoid a nation-wide Bolshevist scare was to have the linen marked plainly "Senate Restaurant...