Word: hubbub
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Amid shouts and hubbub fiery Laborite James Maxton was seen to threaten with his doubled fist equally fiery Conservative Winston Churchill...
...this hubbub glossed over the fact that M. Laval obtained from Mr. Hoover no guarantee of French "Security." It has been clear from the first that the Hoover Moratorium would have to be extended or some cancellation made, but the President prefers to have Europe ask Congress. As something bright and dramatic, Premier Laval announced that he would call what amounts to a new Reparations Conference in December at Biarritz...
...assets Standard Oil Co. of California, forming a huge company which, in a good year, might well earn the stupendous total of $166,000,000. And an alliance between Standard Oil Co. of Ohio and the onetime Standard unit, Ohio Oil Co., was widely discussed. The reason for this hubbub was that the last day during which the U. S. Department of Justice could have appealed to the Supreme Court to halt the proposed merger between Standard Oil Co. of New York and Vacuum Oil Co. had come and gone, and the Department of Justice had NOT appealed...
Then came the word: The World had been sold to Scripps-Howard. The hubbub grew again. Some of the men drifted away, headbent, stunned, dully meditative. Others, a little raucously, encircled City Editor Barrett with "For He's a Jolly
...three hours the hubbub continued. Some shareholders jumped on their chairs and harangued. Conservatives shook their heads and said they had never seen such rudeness...