Word: pother
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pother were the Balkans last week because Premier Benito Mussolini was said to be forcing upon Albania's King Zog a customs union with Italy, threatening that unless His Majesty does as directed he will lose his fat subsidy from the Italian treasury...
Meanwhile, with the principals cooped up on the Alton, the Fortescue-Massie case whipped up a great pother of official excitement and activity in Honolulu and Washington. Governor Lawrence M. Judd of Hawaii, island-born son of an island-born father, found himself under sharp, critical attack for Honolulu's lax law enforcement. Businessmen led by Walter Dillingham, railway tycoon, demanded a cleanup. Worthy citizens held mass meetings to protest against being "shushed"' by politicians who fairly screamed that Hawaii's raucous medley of race and sex was all an exaggeration. The Grand Jury met and dawdled while Governor Judd...
...very limited number of the employed and unemployed citizens of these United States have any conception of the true inwardness of all this pother over reparations, moratorium...
...President's words created a temporary political pother. There was talk of legislation to outlaw short selling, altogether. Short-sellers were anonymously but importantly condemned as "hyenas" and "crocodiles." Somebody told the President that shorts were prepared to hammer wheat prices down...
...great nautical pother has been stirred in the Press because Old Ironsides was not sailed. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke made trouble for himself by publicly doubting whether the present-day Navy could muster a crew capable of handling a square-rigger. Old sailors' homes fairly thundered with indignant denials. Mr. Jahncke later explained that the Constitution had an exhibition schedule to keep, could not risk delays under canvas. He proposed that she be turned over later to Annapolis midship men for training purposes...