Word: chaotic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from newspaper accounts, revolution may well seem to be the chronice condition of that country. The past twenty years have seen a series of military dictators succeed each other in the seat of power only to be ousted in turn by some ambitions subordinate or rival. Out of this chaotic scene Professor Holcombe here tries to isolate the significant incidents and to demonstrate the continuity of development that lies behind them. The book is more than a scholar's reference work, for the facts collected are analyzed and interpreted by a critical mind that is well versed in governmental problems...
...stood on Tuesday morning, and so, to all intents, it stood in the late Friday afternoon when hysterical stockholders demanded to be released from the barred doors of their seventh chaotic session. Four days of wild confusion had not settled the issue, had indeed only befogged it. The scene of the voting had changed to the fine, big Stambaugh auditorium. But the scene of the real battle had moved, far from the tired, bitter stockholders, into the comparative quiet of the courts. Neither Cyrus Eaton nor Jim Campbell, nor Grace and Schwab of Bethlehem, nor the Mather brothers of Cleveland...
...drifts. Schools all closed when attendance dropped to 20%. The snow even blanketed crime: not one case was docketed in Morals Court during the blizzard; only six robberies were reported to tho police. Abandoned automobiles along the streets were encased in soft bulgy white outlines. Railroad yards became chaotic as switches jammed. The Illinois Central put a long string of freight cars out along its lakefront line to serve as a snow fence. The city's milk supply was sharply reduced while suburbanites subsisted on canned goods. Lifelines had to bo stretched on Michigan Avenue. One snow-blinded...
Died. Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, 70, theatre owner, manager, producer; at Manhattan; after a long illness. Beginning as an opera-glass boy in Cleveland, he became a protege of the late great Mark Hanna. In partnership with Marc Klaw he organized chaotic theater bookings with a clearing house system, established a syndicate of nearly 700 theatres. Immediately after his death a dispute arose over his $75,000,000 estate between onetime New York Supreme Court Justice Mitchell Louis Erlanger, his brother, and Mrs. Charlotte Fiscal Erlanger. Mrs. Erlanger claimed to be the common law widow, hired shrewd Lawyer Max D. Steuer...
With all the chaotic conditions now surrounding the enforcement of the Volstead Act, why not inquire something about the special privilege accorded this association, where real gin cocktails are served at the monthly club dinners, usually attended by 100 to 150 members, and then consider the wonderful Fish House rum punch? that appeared at the last New Year's Eve celebration...