Word: imbroglio
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Egypt. Contrary to expectations (TIME, Dec. 1 et seq.), the recent Egyptian imbroglio was not discussed. Egyptians in Rome, however, tried successfully to get their case before the Council...
When order was called again, it became apparent that this time the leaders were not going to bungle into another 103-vote imbroglio. John W. Davis, Alfred E. Smith, Cordell Hull, Frank L. Polk, Thomas J. Walsh, Pat Harrison and the McAdoo leaders had consulted and agreed. At once Harry Flaherty of Nebraska rose and nominated Governor Charles W. Bryan, adding the 14th& to 13 already nominated. One ballot was taken. There were many complimentary votes for favorite sons. But the delegates were aweary, aweary; "they wished that they were dead." To save another roll call, they changed their votes...
...imbroglio of oil interests will be even more absorbing. As gasoline can be produced at tens cents per gallon, there is no doubt as to the course open to the Standard Oil Company. A startling reduction will be the immediate results; the battle of price-slashing that follows will be the greatest in America's industrial history. And the fact that the battle will be waged between two of her most powerful magnates will add the more zest to the struggle...
Unprecedentedly heavy car loadings together with the firming of security and commodity prices, have been the most recent indications of a prosperous Autumn trade now close at hand. The domestic situation has been sufficiently cheerful to counteract such pessimistic foreign news as the Japanese earthquake, the Italo-Greek imbroglio and the economic flounderings of the latest German Government. It is evident that the present momentum of the retail trade should carry well through the late Autumn, unless some unforeseen calamity or calamities develop. Pig production, however-a good index of general production-has fallen off, and the extractor and manufacturer...
...indicated that he would support General Wood in the Philippine imbroglio, would soon take a hand in shipping matters, would recognize Mexico, would send General Crowder back to Cuba, would step lightly but firmly...