Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposes a national standardization of family law, in place of our present 48-state hodge-podge, and the setting up of a Supreme Court devoted to family law. "The establishment," he points out patiently, " of the system that most Western countries have found workable and indispensable." The Boston press ruckus came when he answered a matronly sob-sister with conjectures that, yes, a man ought to be able to find a wife by 25, and should have several children--in line with the idea of becoming a good citizen. The result was most horrid--banner headlines and a front-page...
Then would be the time to strike, when the U.S. merchant marine was fighting for its place on the sea. Then the workers of the world might be roused to unite and the arm of U.S. international policy paralyzed. The ruckus stirred up last week by Joe Curran and Harry Bridges showed what might be done. Other men also had dreams...
There was little violence; it was more like a Union Square demonstration. But the noise spread around the world. Fueled on homesickness and low morale, the ruckus was touched off by the Army's abrupt announcement that it would be some time before a lot of U.S. soldiers got home, because many would have to carry on for a while as occupation troops...
...after my own heart"-is another farm boy: lean, 49-year-old Brynjolf Jacob (Bryn J. for short) Hovde (rhymes with loved a). Bryn J. has, among other things, toured ,the Chautauqua lecture circuit, taught at the University of Pittsburgh-where he got into more than one ruckus because his politics were to the left of the trustees' -and run the State Department's Division of Cultural Cooperation. Says he: "I like to think of a university as a storm center. I like people to take up an issue and scrap and fight about it." He looked just...
Avanti, the Socialist newspaper, heard the story, started a front-page ruckus. Into the fray jumped the Actionist, Communist and Republican papers, screaming for the Duke's royal hide. Royalist supporters, lukewarm or less in their affection for the middle-aged bon vivant-whose amorous escapades had the Lido and Newport agog a decade ago-sat tight...