Word: tempest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Dr. David Saville Muzzey called Georgia's 18th Century colonists "poor debtors and criminals" in his History of the American People he raised a tempest of protest from Georgia's 20th Century citizens. Fortnight ago when the Savannah Board of Education decided to ask Publishers Ginn & Co. to make corrections Historian Muzzey stood his ground, called the protest "just a manifestation of local pride" (TIME, Dec. 28). But last week good-natured Dr. Muzzey changed his mind. To the Savannah Board he wrote a friendly letter announcing that in future editions of the history the phrase would...
...York Herald Tribune reported rumors of Mr. Stimson's resignation, recalled that President Hoover had made Mr. Castle Undersecretary of State over Mr. Stimson's candidate for the job (Lawyer George Rublee of Washington, D. C. who drafted the London Naval Treaty). Declared President Hoover: "A tempest in a teapot...
...Bermuda, is named not for Britain's patron saint but for Sir George Somers. In 1612 the islands were granted by charter to an offshoot of the Virginia Company. William Shakespeare had heard enough about them to make "The Still-vexed Bermoothes'' the scene of The Tempest. Bermuda today has a population of 30,884 of whom about half are white, half Negro. A sizable section of the white population is not Anglo-Saxon but Portuguese-fishermen, farmers, laborers who migrated there comparatively recently. It is ruled by a Crown Governor who must be an officer...
...Bermuda's two literary shrines: Tom Moore's House, where the Irish author of Lalla Rookh, "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" lived for one year; and Prospero's Cave, a spectacular grotto that is traditionally the site of the magic banquet in The Tempest, actually where aquatic Cinemactress Annette Kellerman made Neptune's Daughter and used to give- shapely exhibitions of swimming and diving. Nassau. Bermuda is the name of an island. Nassau is a town. Nassau's island is called New Providence. It lies 933 mi. southwest of Bermuda, less than...
Equally small proportions of disaster would be found in North Carolina where, supposedly because of real estate deflation, 16 banks with $26,103,000 in deposits failed and in Indiana where eight banks with $4,743,000 failed as an aftermath of the Louisville tempest...