Word: scares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America's Great Post War Red Scare, which has already smeared the good name of David E. Lilienthal in the minds of political illiterates, will soon focus upon the Hearst-coined issue of "Communism in the Colleges." A brief but lurid orgy looms; if the House Un-American Activities Committee acts with customary discernment, faculty and undergraduates the country over may look forward to hearing they are "subversive." One may anticipate such an edifying seene as Ralph Barton Perry in pitched verbal battle with J. Parnell Thomas. So high is the current national pulsebeat on the Communist issue, moreover, that...
Last week the Labor Government wiggled out from under its worst labor scare yet. A wildcat strike of about 500 London truck drivers had mushroomed into a walkout of about 40,000 sympathizers and threatened to spread disastrously through the country. The Government got the strike ended in its eleventh day, but it was severely clawed by the wildcatters. So was the strong but unwieldy Transport and General Workers Union, to which most of the strikers belonged. So was London's long-suffering public. The truck drivers had struck in protest against union and government bumbling that had delayed...
...boards with broad powers, set up by the Attlee cabinet in 1945. Ernie Bevin, Britain's Foreign Minister, was formerly boss of the truckers before elevation to his present position. By any standard the strike should not have taken place, and surely not in the union which threw a scare into all London...
Adams' single victory this year hardly tells the story of the team which threw a scare into the ranks of the Deacons last Tuesday. Although slightly weak on pass defense, the Gold Coasters possess a strong forward wall and a high stepping line plunger in Dick McCarthy...
Economically Guatemala can expect scant enough assistance from its northern neighbor. But the Mexican revolution, long since gone paunchy, serves Guatemala as a neat talking point to scare foreign business interests into a reasonable mood...