Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buenos Aires, Nov. 30--Paraguayan forces massed tonight for a smashing week-end offensive along the western sector of the Gran Chaco border war with Bolivia in a desperate drive to end the hostilities which have kept South America in turmoil for three years. Bolivia's rich oil fields were threatened...
Without laying embarrassing stress on its merits as a drama, it is easy to say that the "St. Louis Kid" is good Cagney; and good Cagney, as an unfortunately large number of people know, may be depended upon to include turmoil among the gendarmerie, wisecracks in a welter, fisticuffs in the boudoir, and a pace so rapid as hopelessly to outstrip the plot. Shamefacedly, we admit to a general liking for all these inevitable ingredients, as well as for the toothsome Patricia Ellis and the dogged Alan Jenkins, Mr. Cagney's perennial henchman. The Kid himself, may best be described...
...reason for this turmoil is, of course, the unsavory scandal created by the revelation that members of the government were connected with the Stavisky affair. No one is directly implicated, but the mere breath of rumor has been enough to inflame French public opinion to a fever pitch; the incompetence and mismanagement of which the government has been guilty have shocked and disgusted the public. In addition to this there is ample reason for assuming that the "suicide" of M. Stavisky was arranged by the police as the most efficient means of keeping that unfortunate financier from talking indiscreetly...
...Monday, December 11, the CRIMSON will begin a competition for its News, Editorial, Business, and Photographic Boards. Of these, the Business Board is of great current interest, at this time when the business world in general is in such a turmoil of uncertainty. Candidates for the Business Board will have an unusual opportunity to meet at first hand the effects of the Roosevelt Recovery Program upon industry...
MENACE - Philip MacDonald - Crime Club ($2). The presence of an avenger makes turmoil of an impromptu party...