Word: pother
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was a great pother of excitement when Republican Oscar De Priest's wife in a blue chiffon dress, grey hat and coat and on Mrs. Herbert Hoover's invitation, went to the White House one afternoon to drink tea with white Congressmen's ladies (TIME, June 24, 1929). Mrs. Mitchell will expect a similar tea-date with Mrs. Roosevelt. "There is no prejudice against my people in the present Administration.'' the black Gentleman from Illinois told his constituents. "This is a new day under a New Deal...
...soared above those for 1932. At the American Petroleum Institute's semi-annual convention in Pittsburgh last week Consolidated. Oil's J. E. Dyer key-noted: "The oil industry under the code has made definite, unmistakable progress in the past year." There was still a deal of pother about overproduction but John Investor would have gathered from last week's financial pages that Oil on the whole was doing pretty well...
What can the Powers do about it? Not much. The European powers are too greatly concerned over the Central European situation to do more than mouth unimpressive nothings about the Far East. It was in a similar pother over Central Europe that Japan managed to annex a considerable portion of what had once been Europe's trade with the Far East, so that it would appear that history is repeating itself in a strangely short time. The League of Nations will consider, delay, expostulate, threaten, be extremely firm, and Japan will emerge with what she desires. It has been said...
...Author. Though agitated left-wing critics have made much pother about the rise of U. S. "proletarian literature," few respectable examples have so far come to light. To the sparse shelf that holds John Dos Passes' unfinished trilogy (The 42nd Parallel, 1919) critics can now add the beginning of Josephine Herbst's. Her purpose is orthodox: to show the collapse of the "bourgeois" class. The second volume will bring her Trexler family up to the War; the third to 1933. Like Dos Passes, Authoress Herbst is not a member of the Communist Party, though her sympathies are even...
...caused German newsorgans of all sorts to chime in. "The French treat the Chancellor of Austria like a Negro chieftain!" stormed Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. "Nobody protested," cried the Catholic Reichspost, "when in 1932 Czechoslovakia sent to Jugoslavia through Austria enough arms alone to equip several army corps!" Amid frenzied pother the Austrian Cabinet of Chancellor Dollfus tottered, and excited Europe scarcely had time to be alarmed last week by sly Dr. Benes' new Great Power...