Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stockade all that day. When Kirkland was returned to the camp, a mob of 75 gathered, including the nine-year-old's father. The sheriff decided to take his prisoner to a nearby town for safekeeping, emerged with him. The girl's father raised a shotgun. Turmoil followed and, despite the urgings of many a citizen, the mob disarmed the sheriff, bundled Willie Kirkland into a truck, took him to Magnolia Gardens (where Sportsman Harry Payne Whitney has a shooting preserve, where the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna had his winter home). There they hanged him from...
...first pension bill for World War veterans disabled in civil life went on the Federal statute books amid great legislative turmoil last week, less than one hour before Congress adjourned. It represented a major reversal of the policy of compensating World War soldiers for service disabilities only. Small though the amount of the pensions appeared, they were large enough to establish the principle of civil disability payments which in the course of years will undoubtedly dwarf the pension outlays after all other U. S. wars. Spanish War veterans had to wait 22 years for their civil pensions. World War veterans...
Canvassers for the Miami Civic Tourist Club solicited Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone for a gift of $2,500 to swell a fund dedicated to community progress & betterment. News of the solicitation threw the club into a turmoil. President Clyde A. Epperson resigned; many board members followed his example. While this quarrel raged, a letter came from Capone's attorneys stating that no contribution would be forthcoming...
With Congress in a turmoil over a new outburst of its perennial tariff war, the latest news from the front is the petition, originated by Professor Taussig, and signed by over a thousand of the foremost economists protesting against the Hawley-Smoot Bill. Like most such protests, this petition will probably be pigeonholed while the Senator from Massachusetts, with an eye to a future election, pleads for a raise of the tariff on textiles or the Senator from Idaho thinks that his constituents would profit by further government protection of the wool market...
Recognizing that humans find the sounds of animals exciting, mysterious, pleasant, Raymond Ditmars suggested that "the terrific crash and turmoil of life inside an anthill" must be comparable to that of a human metropolis. In the Berkshires he found anthills three feet high in each of which some 40,000 ants lived according to the complexities of their harsh and courtly government. In one of these he planned to insert a microphone strong enough to stand being lugged up the side of a mountain, delicate enough to record the clamor of tiny corridors, the swarming of young male and female...