Word: hullabaloos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew it! One just can't evade it. We mean all of the hullabaloo that has been raised during the past year or so. And Ursula Parrott has brought it all to us in The Tumult and the Shouting (Longmans, Green, $2.00), along with the revelation that it all started way back in 1877 in a famous Boston family history. There Ought to be a Law against such things, you may feel, but William Seagle thinks that there ought to be a law against useless laws, and he tells you why in his new book (Macaulay, $1.25), a compilation...
Disclaiming any inconsistency, Major Namm & friends stoutly retorted that the Drug Code was out & out price-fixing, that theirs was no more than a limitation of loss. But when the N. R. D. G. A. suddenly realized that the manufacturers under cover of the retailers' hullabaloo were quietly passing codes containing similar restrictions against selling below cost, it was highly indignant. Last week it announced that representatives would henceforth attend all hearings on manufacturers' codes to see that nothing was put over on the retailer...
...London Tribune happened to be in the vicinity and short of copy, Charlie became a hero overnight. He left his job, went to London to be lionized, photographed, interviewed, presented with a check for ?500. Charlie was a sensible lad and kept his shirt on through all the hullabaloo, but when he found himself in a theatre-box with Ida. winner of a newspaper beauty contest, he lost his head with his heart. Ida was out of the same social drawer as Charlie, but she had ambitions: she really believed she was well on the road to Hollywood. While...
...temporary level below which grain future prices would not be allowed to sink. Last week that artificial floor was removed. Prices-which had been bobbing along on the rule like balloons without lifting power-promptly dropped the maximum amounts permitted in one day's trading. Great was the hullabaloo. Representative Jones of Texas and Senator Smith of South Carolina promptly swung inflationist thunderbolts about their heads again. Letters and telegrams poured into Washington demanding that the Government repeg prices. No such action was taken. Next morning the grain pits reopened and prices promptly dropped another level lower: dropped...
...Bernarr Macfadden's True Story, Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. last year brought out My Story, withdrew it after a bitter squabble in which Macfadden threatened to undersell My Story with a new one to be called Your Story. Later Publisher Delacorte upset a Macfadden scheme to publish Hullabaloo in imitation of Delacorte's Ballyhoo. Few months ago Delacorte pilfered Macfadden's idea for a burlesque tabloid newspaper, Laugh Parade, beat him to the newsstand with a Nutty News. When Macfadden announced last fortnight a forthcoming magazine entitled Babies: Just Babies, with Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt as editrix...