Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unexpected was this move that the galleries, packed with Latin spectators, first gasped, then cheered. Hubbub and furious cross-comments ensued among the delegates. Then Chief U. S. Delegate Charles Evans Hughes rose, visibly bristling with wrath. A gentleman's agreement, arrived at in committee, had been broken! Mr. Hughes is a gentleman. Said he, in measured tones, tinged with vehemence...
...leading Ohio booster, giving him permission to toss a nominatory monkey-wrench into the works. Since Ohio's plans, and particularly those of its favorite son. Senator Frank B. Willis, had not included the Secretary of Commerce, the official entrance of the interloper made a good deal of hubbub on the second floor of Masonic Hall. Hoover has flouted the old Ohio tradition of unanimous nomination of the favorite son. No wonder Secretary Willis accuses the Secretary of "violating the decencies of politics." And by mail...
George Buchanan, M. P. (prominent Laborite) : "Oh, what a lie!" Mr. Locker-Lampson (answering amid hubbub a Conservative question as to how relations with Rus sia may be resumed) : "The initiative should come from the Soviet Government, whose hostile activities compelled the British Government to suspend diplomatic relations. The Soviet Government know well that if they come forward with constructive proposals we shall be glad to consider them, but first they must abstain from propa ganda against this country." In addition to this sharp exchange in the Commons, excitement was manifest in British Communist circles last week when the Foreign...
...sheaf of secret notes written between President Plutarco Calles of Mexico and U. S. Senator William E. Borah, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was made public last week by the Senator amid hubbub...
Frank L. Smith. The Senate condensed what might have been a two-week hubbub into a two-day debate by establishing the precedent of keeping a Senator out while investigating his right to be in. Thus, Senator-designate and Senator-elect Smith found the door of the 69th Senate shut in his face and his pathway to the 70th made more difficult...