Word: blunderbuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Senate raised its great blunderbuss of investigation and prepared to fire a $50,000 broadside upon the buying and selling practices of all U. S. stock exchanges. Broad though the range of the inquiry was, most Senators realized that its real target was short sales on the New York Stock Exchange. From President Hoover down, many a U. S. citizen has long believed that such sales maliciously depress the market, add to hard times...
...Alfred Isaacs, shoved into power by Australia's Labor Prime Minister James Henry Scullin (TIME, Dec. 15). This appointment so roiled George V that he altered the traditional "His Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve . . ." to "The King, on the recommendation of Scullin, has appointed . . ." No such blunderbuss phrase appeared last week: His Majesty was most graciously pleased to approve Lord Willing don. It was an open secret that the choice of Viscount Willingdon was King George's own, that he prided himself in the knowledge that by so doing he had unsnarled a nice political tangle...
...India House -mere symbols both. Up to last week the appointment of a Governor General for one of the Dominions had always been announced by His Majesty's Government in Great Britain, had always contained the hallowed words: "His Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve. . . ." Like a blunderbuss fired from Australia House came last week this blunt phrase: "The King, on the recommendation of Scullin, has appointed. . . ." Sir Isaac Isaacs. Even before Prime Minister James Henry Scullin of Australia set out for London to attend the Imperial Conference (TiME, Oct. 13, et seq.), he promised Sir Isaac Alfred...