Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unreasoning to suppose that the President knows what he is doing in the matter of gold buying. For he knows that the cry of terror about the government's credit is meaningless in view of the ever present possibility of forcing the sale of an unlimited quantity of bonds to the Federal Reserve Banks at par. And perhaps he only pretends that he expects to raise prices by buying gold, that he even expects or wants to raise prices at all. A good way of convincing foreign countries that the gold buying policy is not intended "artificially" to stimulate American...
...Brown Book of the Hitler Terror, prepared by a committee chairmanned by British Laborite Lord Marley, appears a photostatic copy of a certificate signed by Stockholm's Police Doctor Karl Lundberg on April 16, 1926: "Captain Göring is a morphia addict and his wife Frau Carin Göring, nee Baroness Fock, suffers from epilepsy. Their home must therefore be regarded as unfitted for her son Thomas...
...best way of helping them, since it might lead to such misery as would promote a revolt against the Nazi State. By a rising vote the delegates pledged members of the Party to buy no German goods, urged them to contribute to the relief of refugees from the "Hitler terror...
...three of the ten prisoners and long jail terms for the rest, fierce indignation boiled up at Japanese Naval bases, scared the Government into forbidding the Press to print news of what was happening in Naval circles. Tokyo tingled with rumors that Naval hotheads were plotting fresh acts of terror to force out mild Naval Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi. Fire- eating Vice-Admiral Suetsugu, commander of the 2nd Naval Squadron, was supposed to be the plotters' candidate...
...stormy autumn night three years ago French peasants near the cathedral town of Beauvais stared in terror at a huge rain-drenched silver mass that lurched over their heads and into a nearby hillside. They heard three thunderous explosions, saw a gigantic blinding blaze. It was the end of Britain's ill-fated R-101, the end of Britain's hopes about lighter-than-air craft. For in that roaring hillside furnace burned the bones of most of the men who had fought for the dirigible program: Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Secretary of State for Air; Sir William...