Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rally in wheat, it was believed, was started by professional traders. But last week the public swooped into the market and whirled it up and out of control with buy-orders. Oldtime operators implored amateur speculators to be cautious, recalled that in 1896 on a shortage scare in India wheat climbed almost perpendicularly from 5 3 (Ho 94/. only to scale down again. "The advance is too rapid to be sound," they kept repeating to a public that did not want to hear. For was not the Farm Board bulling the market and Arthur Cutten predicting "Dollar Wheat...
Long has Dr. Brinkley been a thorn in the side of the A. M. A. More recently he gave Kansas politicians the scare of their lives. Soon after the War he ap peared in the crossroads village of Milford, Kan. and set himself up as a phy sician after obtaining a license by reciprocity from Arkansas. (His Arkansas license had been granted on the strength of a diploma from the Kansas City Eclectic Medical University, since exposed as a "diploma mill.") Dr. Brinkley built a radio station. KFKB, broadcast jazz music interrupted by lectures on rejuvenation. Soon he had transformed...
News Story Magazine, monthly, is for people who do not keep up to date in their tabloid reading. Its stories are recapitulations of the sensations of recent months, profusely illustrated and captioned in scare-head fashion. Several of the stories in the first issue are about six months old (e. g., Starr Faithfull, Two-Gun Crowley, Bryan Untiedt) but an effort will be made to make the magazine a news-of-the-month resume. Publisher is Herman Rawitser (Flying Aces, Detective Dragnet, Football Classic, et al.); editor is one Percy L. Trussell...
When President William Green of the A. F. of L. appeared on the scene, he again struck the threatening note in an address before the preliminary gathering. His words sounded as though lumbering Labor had got its back up. Evidently trying to scare employers out of making further pay cuts, said...
...away, came next day upon Fred Blakeley of Sydney who also was "fossicking" in the district. Mr. Blakeley, brother of Arthur Blakeley. Australian Minister of Home Affairs, at once went to the scene of Big Jim's big scare, found the reptile's traces. Evidently it was a monster lizard. From front claw to hind claw it measured 6 ft. 3 in., which indicated a total length of about...