Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unreality of their characters is a prerogative of mystery writers that constitutes many a mystery writer's entire stock-in-trade. A welcome exception is Author Gunther, who peoples his well-written murder story with characters recognizably alive. So lively are they, so picturesque is the Balkan political turmoil in which they agitate, that most readers will be more interested in their daily doings than in discovering which one of them murdered the two American boys. Just out of college, the boys were taking an innocent tramp through Europe, landed up by chance in Trapani, capital of Corisco. Things...
...band of five brown-skinned bucks near the Ala Moana Road. At their trial Mrs. Massie had identified Joseph Kahahawai Jr. as the one who broke her jaw with his fist before assaulting her. A "hung jury" in that case fired a chain of racial excitement and turmoil not ending with the start of the murder trial last week. For the past three months the murder defendants had been held by the Navy at its Pearl Harbor base. Twice their joint trial was postponed to allow Clarence Darrow time to arrive from Chicago to head their defense. Circuit Judge Albert...
...seat during the War he became a major in the Army, was sent to Italy in command of U. S. aviation forces, flew bombing planes over the Austrian lines. Later he returned to the U. S. and to Congress where he has been a centre of constant legislative turmoil. In 1929 he ran for Mayor of New York City as a Republican, charged Tammany Hall with most of the things which have been subsequently disclosed by legislative investigation, was defeated by James John ("Jimmy") Walker. A widower, he married his secretary three years ago. He likes to cook Italian dishes...
Died. Joseph M. ("Little Joe") Brown, So, twice Governor of Georgia; after a long illness; in Marietta, Ga. His political tussles with the late Hoke Smith for party leadership kept Georgia Democrats in turmoil for 25 years. In 1928 Brown and Smith were finally reconciled in support of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Undersized...
...opening foreword declares, "This is the moment in which much space of the newspapers is devoted to affairs in the East and editorials are busy tackling the Manchurian problem. It is hoped that the turmoil will not last long and, in fact, it cannot last long. A little shift of political incidents is sure to undermine the whole struggle and therewith the space occupied by this unfortunate event will saved for the exploitation of other fattens. Thus Manchuria will be for gotten and the Oriental people once again relegated to a sort of Utopiation-existence...