Word: tumult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vincent Sheean (Personal History), Walter Duranty (I Write As I Please), John Gunther (Inside Europe), George Slocombe (Tumult and the Shouting), Negley Parson (Way of a Transgressor), Miles Vaughn (Covering the Far East...
...Tribune sage's articles remain when they are issued, frozen inside book-covers. You turn the pages from the panic mood of January, 1933, when Mr. Lipmann joined his well-modulated call to the rest of those who demanded swift executive action; through the decisive March days, through the tumult round banks and public works and beer, through the birth of the blue eagle. Here is Mr. Lippman praising the emergency legislation in March, 1933, growing warier in the late spring, doubting carnestly by July, when he sees "moral coercion by means of the blue eagle and the boycott" forcing...
...Beloved sons and exiles of a Spain so dear to us and now so desolate that it fills our hearts with an utterly inexpressible tumult of afflicting and conflicting feelings and emotions. . . . You have been robbed and despoiled of all things. You have been hunted and set upon to death in cities and villages, in dwellings of men and on mountain tops. . . . These tragic happenings in Spain speak to Europe and the whole world and proclaim once more to what extent the very foundations of all order, of all culture, of all civilization, are being menaced. This menace, it must...
...camp was patronized by 254 "couples," 109 of whom came from Dallas. Only seven gave their right names, but S. M. U. snoopers took their automobile license numbers, discovered their identities. These were not disclosed, but a map showing the location of their homes was circulated, caused tremendous tumult, for most of the "couple trade" came from the better parts of town. Concluded S. M. U.'s investigators...
...evolve from the War a neat, tight, old-fashioned victory settlement with Germany. At these doomed gatherings, now being repudiated by a fresh generation of statesmen, there was no more familiar sight than the large red beard of the amiable British Bohemian, George Slocombe. Twice, he claims in The Tumult & the Shouting, he personally contrived to bring about historic meetings between hostile statesmen: 1) at Geneva in 1927, between Russia's Litvinoff and Britain's Austen Chamberlain; 2) at The Hague in 1929 between France's Briand and Britain's Philip Snowden. When Slocombe knew France...