Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clearings in the woods. First serious trouble came four months ago when Republicans and Orangemen rioted at Portadown, County Armagh (TIME, Aug. 24). That trouble spread. Just as in the bloody days of 1916, men were found dead in the ditches. On Armistice Day, Dublin was in a turmoil. Crowds surged up & down O'Connell Street, cheering, singing "Down King! Up Republican Army!" Free State officials were alive to the seriousness of the situation. A Public Safety Act was issued making membership in the Irish Republican Army and eleven other secret organizations illegal.* A military tribunal...
...undergraduate, who plays the game, or watches it or refuses to watch it, is strangely apart from all this turmoil and controversy. The collegiate balloon of football sentiment has been pricked sometimes during the last decade and most of the hot air has leaked out, from his standpoint if not from that of the crowds. The charge of over emphasizing the sport cannot be laid at his door. At Harvard the days of torchlight parades, read flares, and mass meetings, outlived the mole-skin era in football pants, but not by long...
...Embree's Browns are still mostly peasants and servants on Southern farms or laborers in Northern factories. But sufficient have risen into the arts, professions and commerce for him to predict their pervasion of the U. S. scene and despite much turmoil, which he considers not altogether valueless for U. S. culture, their passive acceptance by the general population...
...Detroit last week, Ralph E. Badger, one of the six executive vice presidents of Union Guardian Trust Co., clarioned: "Calvin Coolidge is the Moses to lead Americans from the present political turmoil that influences the present economic structure." During the past two years, hundreds of people like Banker Badger and scores of small Republican organizations have agitated to "draft Coolidge" back into the Presidency. For once & all, in a carefully copyrighted pronunciamento - "Party Loyalty and The Presidency"-for this week's Saturday Evening Post, badgered Mr. Coolidge said his say. His say: He does not want public office...
...caterwauling." Many a Seattlite was grieved to see this dirty municipal contest come to a head at the height of tourist season. In fact the recall election was postponed a week on protest of the Seattle Lodge of Elks, hosts for their order's national convention, because "the turmoil and agitation would have a most adverse effect" on the brother Elks' appreciation of the city...