Word: poohs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handful of colonels, a truckload of captains, down to a group of students who were supposed to start demonstrations in the street as soon as the assassinating had properly begun. Last week Rumania lay paralyzed by its worst assassination scare to date. The Government clapped on an iron censorship, pooh-poohed "a thing which usually should be regarded as nothing more than mere news." Police called in foreign correspondents who had slipped out "mere news" stories, lectured them and held the New York Times' correspondent Dr. Eugen Kovacs for six hours. The favorite substitute story was that the officers...
...feet again. Chief causes of the Administration's lasting embarrassment were the interred or incinerated remains of 13 military flyers who died when the Army, on notice too short for proper preparation, was given the nation's airmail to fly. A secondary cause was the charge, pooh-poohed by the Administration but still repeated by many onlookers, that the blow was struck unfairly, before hearing all the defendants' stories, and struck at the wrong target. If airmail carriers had played a crooked game with President Hoover's Postmaster General Brown, they had only followed rules laid...
...throne was a traitor too. Peers pointed their fingers. Lost in the hubbub were murmurs that Minister Nakajima had been distributing stock in the semi-official Bank of Taiwan below market price. In vain the flustered baron protested that ten years had changed his ideas. Though War Minister Hayashi pooh-poohed the article as "such a small thing," Baron Nakajima had to resign from the Cabinet...
...came no answer to the students' telegram. Said Dean Wannamaker: "I like to see the students have some fun. They acted too hastily. They do not know exactly what they want now but they are earnest and sincere and something will grow out of it." Other university officials pooh-poohed the revolt, urged Durham newspapers to ignore it. But many a student and restive alumnus saw more to the affair than a youthful outburst, more to the rumored faculty unrest than the squabbles and jealousies which beset every university administration. Back of it all, they said, was the refusal...
...telephone company and, after James J. Hill refused to enter the territory, built his own railroads. A rugged individualist of the Ford school, he hates & fears the banker, denounces all curtailment agreements among newsprint makers as "restraints of trade." Last week when the banker regime in his old company pooh-poohed his libel suit, he said: "A $1 award means victory, vindication...