Word: poohs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having watched the stockmarket hit its fourth bottom without a heartening rally last week, Wall Street began to lift an anxious eye to the general business picture. Was the stockmarket forecasting another slump? Pooh-poohing the "harvest of gloomy warnings," Cleveland Trust Co.'s Leonard P. Ayres observed last week: "The declines in stock, bond and commodity prices are not astonishing. They were all overdue, for prices had been marked up overly fast by speculation. . . . Probably the chief cause of our worries is that most of us have forgotten that even during recoveries there are no such things...
...cunning of Col. Charles R. Apted, who yesterday afternoon vigorously denied that the doors were locked with malice aforethought. According to his statement the doors are always locked by the janitor when no class is scheduled to be held in the hall. Furthermore, he was inclined to pooh-pooh the matter as being a trivial incident...
...next press conference after the Governor-General's departure, the President hastened to pooh-pooh any immediate Peace Plan. His denial quashed rumors that he was going to spring on the world this week (the 20th anniversary of U. S. entry into the War) a proposal for a general disarmament conference. But observers had no doubt that he was still looking for 1) a practical world peace plan; 2) a favorable moment to spring...
...about Ford labor problems. One of them yelled "Stop!" Mr. Bennett did not stop until the men had given chase, rammed their car into the side of his. Then they stopped too, but fled when the uninjured Ford chief waved his revolver. Last week Mr. Bennett pooh-poohed reports that the "boys" were trying to kill him, said he had no intention of pressing charges against them...
...drawing from energetic Assistant U. S. Attorney William Power Maloney a challenge as to his economic competency. Mr. Fisher, he told the jury, was a "dusty old academic," "a slightly befuddled expert." Shown news stories of Roger Ward Babson's prediction of the 1929 crash, which were publicly pooh-poohed by Mr. Fisher at the time, the white-goateed old Professor declared...