Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moscow acted quickly. Every Soviet correspondent was withdrawn from Germany. The four German correspondents in Moscow were given 72 hours to leave Russia. Moscow papers scare-headed "Rupture of Press Relations!" Roly-poly Maxim Litvinov, Foreign Commissar, issued a statement...
...vote in a primary election. One hoodlum was shot to death, a score were slugged and when the ballots were counted the local Republican leader had been ousted, the Democratic chief went hopping out of Tammany Hall to do plain & fancy fence-mending, the Fusion party had a bad scare thrown into it from the White House. Not since the days of "Red Mike'' Hylan had the political affairs of the nation's No. 1 city been so thoroughly scrambled...
...inamoratas usually parted friends. ''We both cried a little when we said goodbye. We told each other how happy we had been. Like frightened and lonely children, we kissed and parted." All this gave him something of a reputation among his fellow-bohemians. and even began to scare him a little. He tried being psychoanalyzed: the analysis was never completed but it gave him a lot to think about. When he married for the second time (in 1919, one Berta-Marie Gage), Greenwich Village smirked behind its hand. ''Some of our surprised and cynical friends gave...
Most brokers regarded proposals for moving the New York Stock Exchange to New Jersey as far fetched because: the Exchange owns $20,000,000 of property in Manhattan; brokers are bound by leases on offices; the undesirability of leaving the banking centre. Other brokers, whether to throw a scare into Tammany or because they really meant business, took steps...
...Austrian Nazi exiles had massed on the Bavarian side of the frontier. The rumor crackled through Innsbruck, then spread with mounting terror through the Tyrol, through all Austria, that war had begun, the Nazi invasion was under way. From Vienna, Chancellor Dollfuss, delighted with his little war scare, announced that the maneuvers were merely the usual autumn field practice. He did not add that little Austria, which has just received official permission to increase its little army from 22,000 to 30,000 men, had last week 40,000 armed men on the Bavarian border. Supplementing the 22,000 regulars...