Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Police Commissioner James W. Higgins, Erie County's ex-Democratic Chairman Frank J. Carr, two police lieutenants and three lesser defendants of conspiring to protect gamblers. By last week the subsequent disclosures of what went on in the jury quarters at the Hotel Statler had done more to shock honest citizens of Buffalo than all the town's recent municipal scandals...
...whole post-War I period was preoccupied with politics to a degree matched only by the 16th Century's preoccupation with theology. So thoroughly was Europe inured to political shock that the transition last autumn from war of nerves to war of guns was accepted by most of its millions with an extraordinary calm. The calm was tempered with some fear, but also with nostalgia, for few men believe that Europe will ever again be the Europe of Aug. 31, 1939-just as the July of 1914 never came again. Whether Europe's new era will...