Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount). What the sheik was to the comparatively repressed cinemaddicts of the early null the aviator is to audiences now. The contemporary hero does not entirely gain by the comparison. He is covered with grease and what he has to say for himself is frequently drowned out by the uproar of machine guns and propellers with which the talkies so constantly belie their name. In this picture routine shots and noises of planes taking off, landing, crashing, planes upside down, on their noses, in hangars or at war with each other serve almost to obliterate an interesting character study...
Cause of the uproar and indignation was comparatively trivial. On May 2 matured a $239,197,000 issue of 2% Treasury certificates, "payable in U. S. gold coin of the present standard of value'' But President Roosevelt had forbidden all payments in gold on all obligations, public or private. U. S. certificate-holders got paper dollars still nominally worth 100? while foreigners were asked to take paper dollars worth only 84? in their currency. The President's embargo likewise prevented gold exports to meet the June 15 Liberty Loan interest payments abroad, despite the "gold clause...
...rail. For a few moments in the last furlong of the mile and a quarter distance the crowd saw the two of them locked together at close quarters, their jockeys' boots rubbing. As they reached the finish still jammed together at the rail, in the immense uproar of a crowd that wanted the Bradley horse to win, Broker's Tip got the soft part of his nose out in front...
...onetime professional wrestler, tapped Savoldi's shoulder, awarded him the match to the intense surprise of both contestants and a crowd of 7,000. Chairman Joseph Triner of the Illinois Athletic Commission decided that Savoldi had won properly, but banned wrestling in the State indefinitely because of the uproar over the decision...
...weeks & weeks Detroit's tall towers have resounded with bitter wrangling as plan after plan for bank-opening was proposed, dissected, discarded. But when the final decision was reached early last week, Detroit was in an uproar. Police Commissioner James K. Watkins led the opposition, crying: "Your city is being sold out from under your feet!" At his broadcast appeal, a flood of protest telegrams hit Washington, just as they had at almost every other proposal (TIME, March 27). Secretary of the Treasury Woodin asked Detroit's spellbinding radio priest, Father Charles Coughlin, to defend the plan.* More...