Word: hullabaloos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York chums waged war. At a Manhattan County committee meeting of the party, a divisional director of Mr. Quill's union leaped to the platform, with a pack of Communist sympathizers, took over the proceedings. The lights flashed off, on, off again. Amid the hullabaloo the Quillsters voted down the anti-Communist resolution, yelled recriminations at those who objected, elected Leftist Congressman Vito Marcantonio chairman of their rump unit. Mr. Marcantonio declined, but he sideswiped the purgers as actors "playing the role of international statesmen. They should go back to ringing doorbells and climbing stairs...
...Park, played it straight: Dee deedle dee dum dum, dum dum, dum dum. . . . Dee deedle dee dum dee dum dee dum. . . . Many another orchestra and soloist twanged and blared it. It was even played in Hawaiian style. A local radio station dramatized the life of its author. All this hullabaloo in Washington, D. C. celebrated a work which first took U. S. ears by storm 50 years ago: John Philip Sousa's The Washington Post March...
...Henry St. George Tucker of the U. S. Protestant Episcopal Church preaching the sermon. Rector Wilson declared that faithful past church attendance would now yield a dividend: regular worshippers would get seats, others would have to stand in the grounds outside. He also put churchmanlike perspective on all the hullabaloo. Said he: "We realize it is a great honor that our church will be the only one in the United States at which Their Majesties will worship. It will be historic. But then, the church is already rich in history...
...cutting taxes: "There is a hullabaloo for the repeal of the undistributed earnings tax. You would think that this was the principal deterrent to business today. Yet it is a simple fact that out of $1,100,-000,000 paid to the Federal Government by corporations, less than $20,000,000 conies to the Government from the undistributed earnings tax-less than 2% of the total. . . . I am wholly willing to have this $20,000,000 tax . .. repealed on two simple conditions, which are based on principle. . . ." (The two: raise it from the big corporations, find another substitute for taxing...
...short run relationship between Harvard and the City of Cambridge has often been strained but over the long run, differences of opinion between the two have been essentially financial. Sometimes, as in the election hullabaloo last fall, the real argument is beclouded by political smoke-screens; at other times, Harvard is lambasted for "red' activities or student pranks. Still, the true bone of contention is money...