Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While reporters and photographers clustered around Cinemactress Lupe Velez as she detrained in Manhattan last week with a shivering Chihuahua toy dog named Sophie, the 31st U. S. President created no stir at all leaving the same train. Citizen Herbert Hoover of Palo Alto, Calif, was bound for Belgium, for his first visit since he served as its unsalaried Wartime Relief Administrator. Meantime, Publisher Charles F. Scott returned from a visit to Mr. Hoover in Palo Alto to break in his Iola (Kans.) Register an authentic scoop about the only living ex-President. Publisher Scott's news was that...
...Tamaulipas State, where incipient outbreaks occurred. Thousands of peons found that bank credit for Mexico's late cotton-planting season was nonexistent. Suddenly, the Government suspended irrigation public-work projects for lack of cash. Discontent was widespread and the Gold Shirts decided on their abortive attempt to stir the unrest into mass revolt. At week's end the President ordered Government jobs provided for them on the Matamoros-Ciudad Victoria highway construction...
...streets of her native Oslo, Sonja Henie causes almost as much of a stir as King Haakon. In the U. S., where she has been developed into a Hollywood cinemactress in the two years since she abdicated her amateur standing as figure-skating champion of the world, Sonja Henie's popularity is fast becoming comparable to that of Mary Pickford when she was America's Sweetheart...
...definite incitement to war. Preceded by a resounding ballyhoo of advance publicity the pictures seem definitely keyed to a war hawkian pitch. Few will deny the American people the right to see the pictures, but it is hardly too much to ask that the producers do not attempt to stir up a war fever in an effort to sell their pictures...
...priesthood. But in 1929 another apostolic letter was issued by the Vatican, this one forbidding bishops to appoint married priests to Greek Rite posts. Bishop Takach obeyed the order, but in Bridgeport, Conn., a priest dared not only oppose it but circularized Greek Catholic churches to stir up more opposition. This priest, a widower named Rev. Orestes Peter Chornock, was thereupon removed from his rich, comfortable Bridgeport parish, rusticated to a tiny church in Roebling...