Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm near Ausable Forks, N. Y., Artist Kent was surprised to hear of all the fuss. "I think it's a swell thing when people want independence and I think it's the most American thing one can do to wish them luck," said he. "In Puerto Rico a large part of the population is asking for at least the right to a plebiscite. It seems to me as an American that, speaking through the pen of the Eskimos, if the people of Puerto Rico want to be free, God bless them...
Because of the moderately intelligent, highly articulate and supremely argumentative nature of the New Republic'?, and Nation's readers (less than 70,000 all told) ructions among their editorial personnel tend to create more fuss than their mere circulation figures would warrant. So a major little editorial crisis shook the Left press last week when the New Republic'?, inside back page displayed this bulletin...
...Cincinnati, set about selling their products from door to door with one assistant. Last week P. & G., now the largest U. S. maker of soap and allied products-with 10,000 employes, total assets of $133.000.000, net income last year of $16,000,000-distinguished itself by making no fuss whatever over the fact that it is one of the few great U. S. corporations with a century of history behind...
...another 14. The inducement: a life pension of 34 shillings ($8.50) a week. To 90,000 who have recently done their seven years and left the army, the War Secretary offered the same terms if they would return to the colors. The average Tommy could not see what the fuss was about. To him the solution was crystal-clear-more...
...could. These moves were fought tooth & nail by competitors and the Interstate Commerce Commission was appealed to time & again to pry the New Haven loose from its subsidiary, New England Steamship Co. In recent years these efforts have subsided, as though it were not worth while to make a fuss over a herd of once glorious but now old and asthmatic white elephants. New England Steamship Co. lost...