Word: outburst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tunnel dug by convicts since last month's deadly riot (TIME, Oct. 14). In the tunnel were found sledges, drills, crowbars, powder. Alarmed, the officials searched the entire prison, found 300 lbs. of daggers, stilettos, blackjacks, clubs, saws, knives made from files ?all the makings of another violent outburst...
Responsible for Prohibition prosecutions in the District of Columbia is District Attorney Leo A. Rover. Part of the Brookhart outburst was an offer to tell Mr. Rover, before a grand jury, all that Senator Brookhart knows or has heard about Wet Washington. Mr. Rover called at the Prohibition Bureau to see if there was sufficient evidence to warrant grand jury procedure. Mr. Rover said he would be "very glad" to have Senator Brookhart testify, but with everyone bearing in mind the motto "No more crusades," it seemed certain no great amount of evidence would be found, that any steps toward...
Since the cocky little Welshman often goes off halfcocked, his outburst assumed real importance only when wizened Philip Snowden, Labor's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, observed in his most bilious tones, "I cannot trust myself to say what I think of the way we have been treated .... I agree with Mr. Lloyd George's statements. . . ." Although tacitly admitting that circumstances would probably oblige the empire to stomach the Young Plan, Chancellor Snowden militantly added that at The Hague he would make one paramount demand: The new International Bank of Settlement must be located in London...
...cannot but appear to at least a few logical-minded people that such distinctions are artificial; that there really is a desire among both Harvard and Princeton men to match strides on various occasions despite the outburst of 1926. And while those few are not advocating a return to the "big-three" standards, they cannot help condemning the present childish attitude of the two colleges towards frank and open relations where such would be desirable...
...disgust of the Federal Reserve Board, which had been rubbing its hands over the money scarcity that its influence had helped produce. That was why Senator Glass made his "face slapping" remark and tried to read Banker Mitchell out of the Federal Reserve System. What with the Glass outburst and a Federal Reserve Board meeting, the market began April in a nervous condition, and stock averages sweated off over four or five points while call money got up to 15%. The Board, however, did nothing; Secretary of the Treasury Mellon being quoted as saying that neither the rediscount rate...