Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress. Simultaneously the Sentinels of the Republic swung into action. The Sentinels are 1,500 dues-paying and 10.000 non-paying patriots who have devoted themselves to sniping at Prohibition, the Child Labor Amendment, the Federal Office of Education and the New Deal. Last February they began to pepper Washington with petitions against the "pink slip," flood the land with letters, circulars, advertisements, radio speeches urging citizens to write their Congressmen about the "outrage." The time was politically ripe because taxpayers were just making out their Federal returns, filling in the facts about their income on the pink slips that...
...Were shushed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and Colonial Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister when Laborite M. P.'s demanded to know whether Britain's Gibraltar-like "Big Five" banks were burned in the peanut oil, pepper and shellac crashes (TIME, Feb. 18, 25) and whether a crash in London's tin market may not be imminent...
...British jitters were chiefly the result of the pepper pother. Reopening of the pepper market after three failures and a week's suspension by no means marked the end of the pepper pool's spicy history (TIME, Feb. 18). For by last week it was clear that Garabed Bishirgian, the shrewd little naturalized Armenian "Pepper King," had fine friends in high places. Broadly hinted was a British "Stavisky" scandal. Names of Cabinet and Parliament members, big bankers and business"-men, were indiscriminately linked to the great commodity speculation of the past two years. Wild as such talk probably...
Journeying up to Birmingham for the week end, Chancellor Chamberlain addressed his family's ever faithful constituents. They could safely ignore, he counseled, ugly rumors that out of the recent ruin of prominent London pepper speculators there would soon erupt a British Stavisky scandal involving financiers and statesmen. Pooh-poohed the Chancellor of the Exchequer: "The pepper crisis has been cleared up, and I don't think there is as much as a sneeze to be heard in the City today...
Final casualty was Rolls & Sons, a 75-year-old produce house, which was unable to meet its obligations when the pepper market reopened with the settlement price fixed at 16? per Ib., a 45% drop...