Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election welter and hubbub of British politics the figure of bob-haired David Lloyd George grows daily clearer. Sunk into comparative obscurity six months ago, his theatrically effective plans for the relief of unemployment (TIME, March 11) may win enough seats for the despised Liberals to give them the balance of power in parliamentary debates between Conservatives and Laborites, both numerically more potent...
...Georges Kafandaris resigned both his portfolio and his leadership of the Liberals, then announced that he had broken with Venizelos and would form a separate party. Amid frenzied political jockeying the Coalition Cabinet of Alexander Zaimis found its majority in the Chamber dispersed and proceeded to resign. As the hubbub increased and one effort after another to form a new coalition failed, Greek news organs quoted the Old Man of Crete as observing serenely: "I shall resume the Prime Ministry...
Noise became music last week, to the ears of Illinoisans who are proud to live in Joliet. Not merely noise but blatant hubbub, ghastly uproar and bomb explosions...
Thousands of small speculators, who have been largely responsible for the three months hubbub in Wall Street, were last week seized with the same idea. Each of them suddenly became air-minded; each of them wanted to stow away, or play with, a few shares of air stock. True enough, they had played intermittently with air stocks since the Paris flight of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, but never as they did last week...
...Committee of the whole-which is the compact form the House takes during the reading of major bills-Representative Aswell of Louisiana introduced a bill omitting the equalization fee and asked that it be substituted for the McNary-Haugen measure. The Committee of the whole voted in favor. Hubbub then reigned, because the members could not agree as to precisely what had happened, whether a whole new bill had been substituted or just an amendment. When the whole House met, the McNary-Haugenites settled the matter by passing their bill, 204 votes...