Word: shock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...astonishing misapprehension of Senators Robinson, Byrnes & Harrison was typical of the confusion which prevailed in Washington last week after the first shock of the President's proposal had passed. California's Hiram Johnson, Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark and Montana's Burton K. Wheeler made up their minds against the plan. But after the first quick division for & against, the 30-odd remaining Senators who held the balance of power were lying low, waiting to see how the wind blew. Letters from constituents and memorials from State Legislatures were mostly pro-Court, but there were enough...
...three daughters of a druggist in Silver Bow, Mont., Louise was most beautiful, Grace most domestic, Helen most electric. Louise was one of nature's noblewomen and great things were expected of her, so when she eloped with a hard-drinking sports writer, Silver Bow was shocked. After many an up & down, Louise's husband left her, shipped as a sailor the night before the San Francisco earthquake. The shock and the quake combined gave Louise brain fever. A friendly floozy took her in, and she recuperated in a bawdy house. Then she married a rich...
...Nervous shock. As always in one of his major acts-and this was his biggest yet-Franklin Roosevelt had taken this country completely by surprise. Flabbergasted Congressmen stumbled hastily into the legislative chambers to hear the message read as rumors of its contents flew. News-tickers flashed it to the floors of stock exchanges and stockmarket prices took a swift tumble. It spread in banner headlines across every newspaper. Presently it appeared that the U. S. was not .only surprised but also rather shocked. Only the most rabid New Deal newspapers openly applauded. The alarm of the independent press that...
...most of whom were immensely pleased by the President's move. Newshawks who immediately made surveys of Congressional sentiment agreed that the bill would be passed without serious difficulty. Save for routine Republican objections, little criticism was voiced at the Capitol in the first 24 hours following the shock of its reception. Senator Robinson promised that it would receive "favorable consideration...
Five years older than Bishop Dougherty, Aglipay was a shock-headed Filipino who had entered the Catholic Church because the priesthood seemed to offer material advancement, had organized a band of volunteers after the Spanish War, fought the U. S. under Rebel Aguinaldo. Battening on Philippine hatred of the Spanish, and of the landowning, predominantly Spanish clergy which the Vatican had sent to the Islands, Aglipay founded an Independent Philippine Church, with himself as Obispo Maximo or head bishop. When Bishop Dougherty arrived, Bishop Aglipay claimed to have won over most of the Philippines' 7,000,000 Catholics...