Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Immediate Epic was promulgated, William Gibbs McAdoo tried to soothe his fellow Californians' rising hysteria from the vantage point of distant Washington. Said he: "This 'wolf scare' doesn't frighten me at all." But California property owners were now thoroughly alarmed. As capital continued to emigrate, bums, panhandlers, tramps and just plain jobless continued to immigrate across the State borders. All over the State Motor Vehicle Department clerks reported an influx of travelers with suitcases or blanket rolls who said they heard there was going to be "plenty of work in California" for unemployed...
...gold dollar or the issuance of $129 worth of silver certificates against $50 (market value) of silver are similar tricks which Mr. Morgenthau may be tempted to use to pay for the New Deal. No sign has he given yet of desiring to use them, for they would scare capital, upset the market for his bonds. But the temptation will be ever present. For the alternative, higher taxes, will stir up popular opposition and a good part of the Brain Trust fears that their effect would be deflationary...
...Gruening became a bitter critic of U. S. policy in Latin America, a champion of all the little nations on whose soil and soul the U. S. had stepped. In 1924 he publicized the presidential candidacy of the venerable Robert La Follette Sr., helped to throw a "Red Scare" into the U. S. electorate. For two years thereafter he retired to Mexico to write a book (Mexico and Its Heritage], but in 1927 he was back in the U. S., founding the Evening News at Portland, Me. There he promptly discovered another evil worthy of his attack. The Insull utilities...
More to the point of Fascist journalism was a scare started last week by Rome's authoritative Messaggero to incite Italians against Jugoslavs, their traditional foes. According to Messaggero imaginative Nazis peppered Jugoslavia in advance of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss' murder with pamphlet maps suggesting that Germany and Jugoslavia should cooperate in arms. A fantastic "Map of Europe in 1935" showed Jugoslavia gorged with Italian and Austrian territory while "Greater Germany" had been so extended as to include Alsace-Lorraine, the Netherlands, parts of Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania and enough of Italy to give Germany...
...caught napping in case Europe again went up in flames, editors from the Atlantic to the Pacific put their biggest blackest headlines over news from Vienna, Rome and Berlin and wrote solemn pieces on the coincidence of dates, the possibilities of conflict. In London the "American War Scare" was loftily pooh-poohed, but repercussions of the Dollfuss murder stirred the Great Powers and set statesmen toiling as they have not toiled in years to keep peace...