Word: ado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With much ceremonial ado, "Ambassador" Pierson announced from Buenos Aires last month that the Export-Import Bank was lending Argentina $20,000,000 for any use she might want to put it to in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 7). Since Argentina needed industrial equipment and supplies for her new 1,000,000,000-peso arms program, Pierson's announcement seemed to forecast a new era of U. S.-Argentine cooperation...
Without much ado, Mellon Securities got up a syndicate, planned to price the issue at 105 or 105½ to the company, proposed to sell it to the public at 107 or 107½ Spread would be $330,000, of which Mellon Securities' cut would have been $48,000 (based on their original plan to take $2,400,000 of the issue). Since SEC has not yet decided what to do about the underwriting fees of banking houses found to be "affiliates" of utility holding companies, Mellon Securities proposed to impound its money...
...Much Ado about Nothing. War and Navy Department officials smiled at the hullabaloo, did not greatly care about the outcome. Still on the books last week were most of President Wilson's emergency powers. Under them, in wartime or if war is imminent*, the President...
...Arab-Jewish riots of 1936 in Jerusalem, Dr. Edward G. Joseph of Hadassah Hospital had many a patient whose abdomen was badly shot up. Dr. Joseph did not resort to drainage. Instead, he operated in a blood bath, stitched up his patients' intestines, closed their abdomens without further ado. When the victims recovered like clockwork, with no hint of peritonitis, he decided that free outpouring of blood in the peritoneal cavity might be more help than harm...
Editor Edmands took one look at the Consul's letter. Without more ado, he slapped the letter into bold type, printed it on page i. Managing Editor Harold F. Wheeler dashed off an indignant wire to Washington. On the editorial page of the Traveler, Joe Toye reprinted the offending editorial. Next day he added: "Hitler 'is insulted in uncivilized expressions.' So what...