Word: furor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With equal candor the President went on: The move into Iceland might precipitate fighting but he did not think so. He knew that his action would stir up a furor at home and he would be accused of taking an offensive step. But the British had notified him some time before that they needed the forces now in Iceland and intended to remove them. To leave Iceland unoccupied would be an easy opportunity for Germany to seize the island. With 75% of U.S. aid to Britain going over the northern sea route past Iceland's front door, the result...
...acquainted-too well acquainted, some said-with Peggy O'Neale, daughter of an innkeeper, whose first husband apparently committed suicide while on naval duty in the Mediterranean. Partly to quiet gossip, Eaton married the "Gorgeous Hussy" in 1829. When President Andrew Jackson appointed Eaton Secretary of War, the furor of Washington society over Eaton's wife was such that the President's Cabinet fell apart. Later Eaton became Governor of Florida and Minister to Spain. After his death Peggy married an Italian dancing master who stole her money and eloped with her granddaughter...
Nell Lewis' campaign had raised such a furor that Governor J. Melville Broughton (who succeeded Hoey Jan. 1) hurried home from a vacation in Mexico City and ordered that the Warren books, already in use by 90,000 fifth-graders, be recalled at the end of the school term for corrections. He also asked Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell to analyze the rejected Newsome-Lefler book. Maxwell, a Hoeyite, explained everything...
Glorying in the furor aroused by his social-science textbooks (TIME, March 3), Professor Harold Ordway Rugg this week seized the opportunity to publish another book - not a text this time but the story of his clashes with the Rugg-beaters who denounce his texts as subversive. Its title: That Men May Understand (Doubleday, Doran...
...Biggest furor aroused south of the border by any U. S. film to date was kicked up by The Great Dictator.* Promptly barred in Brazil, it was shown in Mexico City under a police guard. In Buenos Aires, two days after Christmas, Mayor Carlos Alberto Pueyrredón (a British sympathizer, member of the anti-Axis Action Argentina) announced that The Great Dictator was banned in Argentina by request of the Italian Ambassador...