Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place of William Scott Vare, rejected. The transformation of Mr. Grundy ?"Old Joe" as he likes his friends to call him?from a tariff archlobbyist to a full-fledged Senator caused some of his more volatile colleagues to gag and splutter furiously. In the end, for all the uproar against him, he took his seat with the apparent certainty of retaining it at least until next year, when he will run for election...
...emblems. In Hollywood's American Legion arena, where filmdom sees weekly boxing bouts, 3,000 of the Equity faithful met. Cried one: "Let there be sound and fury, pickets and turmoil! This is a labor fight." Cried another, pompously: "We are not laborers, but artists. Let there be no uproar." Then arose an American Federation of Labor delegate. "Remember," he said, "until you joined labor in the 1919 strike you were gypsies. You had no dignity...
...fall (still unsolved) created a cloud of stories about the underworld entanglements of Tammany leaders (TIME, Dec. 24). Many a New York voter had begun to forget the Rothstein murder when the Marlow murder occurred. Grover Aloysius Whalen, the fastidious police chief who was inducted to quiet the Rothstein uproar, squared his handsomely tailored shoulders, sat up late seeking clues. His detectives swarmed spectacularly through the Broadway brightlight district making raids, seeking witnesses. Other detectives chased a trail leading to Boston. Said the Commissioner: "Actions speak louder than words...
Some of the tourists observed that in the midst of the uproar the other sentry and horse shifted never so much as an eyeball...
...hats. Supreme and unrivaled in their own fields are Parisian modistes and Hollywood producers. As yet, however, Congress has not decreed that for every three gowns that a Parisienne sells in the U. S., she must buy one U. S. gown and try to sell it in France. The uproar, the heaven-piercing cries for justice which would rise from Paris if the U. S. took such a stand may be imagined. None the less the French Government was last week on the point of imposing precisely similar conditions with respect to U. S. films shown in France...