Word: pother
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...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...