Word: pother
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...years cosmic rays have made a pother in the scientific news. Hardly less of a pother has Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan made by his controversies with colleagues who did not see his cosmic ray theories as he did. By last fortnight Dr. Millikan had decided that laymen interested in cosmic rays were being hopelessly confused by the tangle of-fact and conjecture reported by numerous researchers...
From the vantage of his 72 years. University of Wisconsin's Emeritus Economist John Rogers Commons dismissed the whole pother with: "It makes no difference how the New Deal is taught, because most of the New Deal legislation will be declared unconstitutional in the next few months anyway...
Philadelphia had never known such a musical pother, such tongue-wagging and intrigue which appeared to lead nowhere. Stokowski was resigning, he said, because of "deep-lying differences'' with the board and its failure to appoint a suitable successor to Manager Arthur Judson (TIME, Dec. 17). Since the board seemed to be the cause of the trouble, Curtis Bok wanted to create a new one which would be more sympathetic to Conductor Stokowski. "By sympathy," said Mr. Bok. "I mean more than acquiescence. I mean an understanding and awareness of what he is trying...
Bedrock facts beneath the billows of press pother last week about the Gold Standard...