Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ASTOUNDED BY YOUR PICKING ROOSEVELT AS MAN OF THE YEAR, HE IS MORE BITTERLY HATED THAN ANY PRESIDENT SINCE JACKSON. THOUSANDS CURSE HIM AS A TRAITOR FOR HIS RAPE OF THE CONSTITUTION. THE VERY RICH AND POOR MAY GET RICHER BUT THE GREAT MIDDLE CLASS SCARE THEIR CHILDREN WITH ROOSEVELT'S NAME...
...Washington Secretary Frederick J. Libby of the National Council for Prevention of War broadcast this dire prediction: "We shall build naval vessels and airplanes madly on a fictitious war scare which the munitions makers are trumping up. . . . Our shipbuilders, airplane manufacturers and munitions makers are already launching their publicity to reap a rich harvest from the breakdown of the London Naval conversations...
...poked. As predicted, the starlings fled-to the eaves and cornices of nearby buildings, where they resumed their own annoying chatter. Superintendent Lanham was not baffled. First windless night he planned to send out a squad of men armed with large, hydrogen-filled balloons on long strings. These would scare the starlings off the buildings, back into the trees. There his tin-can brigade could rout them back to the buildings. If he kept that up long enough, possibly the starlings' spirits would break...
...great-grandson of Jay Gould, lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Month ago his mother, divorced from his father, fetched Carroll to Bermuda to live with her and her new husband, Sir Hector Macneal. Last week Carroll walked calmly up the gangplank of the Queen of Bermuda, caused a kidnapping scare in Hamilton before he gave himself up. When the boat docked in Manhattan, Stowaway Wainwright explained: "I wanted to go to school with American kids like myself. The captain was a grand guy. He had me with him all the time and we went everywhere on the ship...
...Under the German Government organization all that is needed is the decision of a handful of men to launch an attack without notice. It is a danger to all Europe that we are in such a position!" This looked like the opening move in the Conservative Party plan to scare British voters into giving them a majority at the next general election. It looked even more like it when Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin took the floor for the National Government, replying to Mr. Churchill. ''We believe." rumbled Mr. Baldwin, "that Germany is in the course of expansion...