Word: rumpusing
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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...
Dangerous Money. Even the Treasury's chief proposal for taking some of the "dangerous dollars"-higher excise taxes -raised a rumpus. The Treasury asked for $2.5 billion from increased excises on liquor, tobacco, furs, candy...
Author of the plan is pint-sized, vitriolic Clarence Budington Kelland, G.O.P. National Committeeman from Arizona, longtime fictioneer for the Saturday Evening Post (Sugarfoot, Arizona), onetime tub-thumping isolationist (Pearl Harbor changed his mind). A bitter-end Republican, he caused a rumpus in Manhattan's famed Dutch Treat Club by stating, in May 1940, that the Fifth Column in America was headed "by that fellow in the White House...
...Lamartine had kicked up a rumpus: the Review mailbag began to swell. A doctor wrote in to complain that the use of hatpins "is an actual and potential hazard to the health of our female population" because scalp abrasions invite invasion by the "bacillus Welchii." A poesy-minded lady in Los Angeles wrote...
This arbitrary proceeding raised a rumpus in Britain, but the Government's reasons were sound, and the Tories turned the incident to their political advantage. In effect, the Government demonstrated that it was placing national interest above that of private enterprise, took the sting from recent indications that Tory M.P.s were not interested in social reforms...