Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond loves best, though, not the turmoil of those days, but their rules and order. No Freshman might wear his hat in the Yard, unless it rained, hailed, or snowed, provided he were on foot, and had not both hands full; nor might any Undergraduate wear his hat in the College yard, and no Bachelor when the President was there. Those were the days when all Freshmen were obliged to go on any errand for any of his seniors, Graduates or Undergraduates, at any time; when "a Senior Sophister had authority to take a Freshman from a Sophomore; a Middle...
...Treasury last week reported on the first full month's fruits of the billion-dollar Revenue Act passed amid turmoil by the last session of Congress. As a budget -balancer the new measure was falling far below expectations. August collections for July business showed that where the Treasury had counted on taking in an additional $53,850.000 from higher revenue rates, actual receipts were only...
...deliveries above 9¢ a pound?nearly 100% above the June lows. Last month brokers on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange lazily perused their newspapers during most of the trading sessions. Last week they swarmed in a shouting, milling mass as they executed the deluge of buying orders. Their excited turmoil was heard above the traffic in Gravier Street. Loiterers grinned up at the exchange when they caught the yells and cheers of brokers as quotations crashed through to new highs. Cotton houses took on full crews, raised salaries, worked late settling contracts. Though its throne has tottered, dangerously of late...
...other country the consequence of such a move would have been immediate turmoil, but the body politic of China is so loosely articulated that it can lose an arm or a leg without feeling it for weeks. So China drifted along last week. Not so Chiang Kaishek. Night after night he was up all night. Airplanes - several piloted by U. S. flyers - roared out to Shanghai, Hankow, Peiping, carrying messages too secret to be telegraphed, even in code. Stubborn Wang remained in hiding in the French concession at Shanghai, refusing to withdraw his resignation or to stick so much...
...principles he stands for are practically the same code of the principles the W. C. T. U. adopted when present-day grey-haired mothers were children in short dresses." Focus. Last week Wet & Dry eyes turned to Congress, ultimate focus of their next big fight. There they beheld frothy turmoil over legalizing beer, heard noisy clamor for immediate Repeal. Beneath surface politics, however, was the solid fact that no serious move to effect a Change would or could be undertaken until after the People speak...