Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After a hubbub and by a vote of 53 to 42, the convention indorsed the proposed amendment to the Penal Code which would permit physicians to give contraceptive prescriptions to any married woman. Fervent advocates of the amendment hailed birth control as a means of preventing war, checking crime and disease...
...commercial aviation (see LEGISLATIVE WEEK). But the debate had little to do with military naval aviation, and so the figure who will probably have most to do with determining the question did not ap- pear. He is the Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Amid all the hubbub he has remained silent, venturing no opinions, making no speeches. His only actions worth mentioning in Congress during the past three weeks, have been occasionally to assume the gavel in the absence of the Vice President, and to introduce a resolution "authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction...
What Wadsworth has to say and do about this matter of reorganization of aviation, is going to be one of the controlling factors. But Wadsworth has remained peculiarly silent in the hubbub. Evidently the time for business as distinct from the time for talk has not quite arrived...
...present hubbub, instigated at the College of the City of New York at the editor of "Campus", the college paper, in an attempt to sound undergraduate opinion on the presence in the curriculum of the course in military science, culminates today and tomorrow in a ballot of the college by the Student Council. In this way the advocates of the abolition of this course hope to present sufficient undergraduate sentiment opposing its continuance to convince the faculty that it should be removed...
Although most of the capital now invested in utility enterprises is in actually operating companies, the late financial hubbub has occurred in the shares of holding companies. According to Mr. Insull, such holding-company shares have risen to unreasonable heights in recent markets, For, as he points out, the utility business is always subject to regulation by public commissions in a way unknown to ordinary industrial concerns. Yet security speculators persist in looking upon utility-holding-company stocks in the same light as industrial shares...