Word: rumpusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Robert A. Taft, author of the Soldier Vote Act provision which has caused all the rumpus, agreed to meet with the Army's enforcing officers to see if they can agree on just what the law means. Republican Taft declared that the Army "has badly misinterpreted both the letter and the spirit...
...Syphilis Rumpus...
When U.S. newsmen trudged into Father Orlemanski's special "bridal suite" at the National Hotel, he joked, slapped backs, talked cautiously of his mission and his Kremlin interview: "Stalin wants a free, independent and democratic Poland." When he saw the photograph, he said: "This will make a rumpus in America, eh?" Patently hungry for all the publicity he could get, he impressed one correspondent as "a typical, tough Polish-American politician...
...Civilization. In this and other writings, straying from the strict military field, he has also urged a totalitarian England, called parliamentary governments "mobocracies," praised the discipline, comradeship and culture engendered by fascist dictators. Today he writes a lusty, critical weekly article for Lord Beaverbrook who enjoys a good rumpus. In his free time he applies his considerable talents to occultism...
James H. Graham, onetime engineering professor at the University of Kentucky, had no idea that his one-page memo would launch a $134,000,000 rumpus. An old friend and $1-a-year assistant to the U.S. Army Service Force's Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Mr. Graham had been asked to figure out a quick, sure way to supply the Alaska Highway with oil and high-octane gas. Engineer Graham studied maps and mulled over the problem at intervals for two months in the spring of 1942. Then he suggested: Why not develop the Canadian oil resources...