Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stay out of the next one was to keep its trade and money at home when the fighting began. Steamed up by the Millis book and FORTUNE'S "Arms and the Men" (munitions-makers), the Senate peacemen got their start on the crest of the Italo-Ethiopian war scare. Whooped through Congress was a temporary resolution banning sale of U. S. arms to nations at war, empowering the President to forbid U. S. citizens to travel on belligerents' boats (TIME, Sept...
...scare had died down by the time this statute was due to expire early last year, and the peacemen were unable to replace it with permanent legislation. But they did manage to tack on an amendment prohibiting loans and credits to belligerents, get the resolution extended for another 14 months...
From its files the Examiner drew many a great news story with which in days gone by it had roused San Franciscans: the mysterious Nob Hill haunted house scare (1888), the City Hall building fraud of 1891; the visit of Strong Man Eugene Sandow in 1894 when the blond Hercules separately moved each & every muscle of his body; the horrid "Belfry Murders"-two young women church workers, one chopped up, one strangled and stowed in a steeple (1895); the kidnapping and torture of aged Sugar Planter James Campbell...
...many of whom were defeated in the primaries. This fact has not been forgotten by the winners, notably by San Antonio's quick-tongued little State Senator J. Franklin Spears and Georgetown's reforming Representative Harry Newton Graves. Some of Mr. Spears's colleagues got the scare of their lives a few weeks ago when his supporters very nearly succeeded in jamming through a resolution requiring all Texas Senators to report their income from retainer fees. From Texas Gulf records it had been learned that Democrat Miller's expense account was large and vague, hotel...
...until 5 a. m. Meanwhile the Duke of Windsor said good-by to his sister, Princess Mary, the Princess Royal (TIME, Feb. 15), who returned to the United Kingdom. A typically Viennese press sensation burst when one of Windsor's telegrams to London was secured and Austrian papers scare-headed that he had "ordered sent out from England the magnificent white horse on which he used to ride as King and Emperor." Actually the Duke had telegraphed an order for some whiskey, "White Horse" brand...