Word: thereupon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first proclaimed. Last week, however, Doctor Matchek and fellow Croats, barred from their own party headquarters in Zagreb by the police, were informed by Prime Minister General Zivkovitch that "all political parties are terminated and citizens do not assemble for political purposes since there are not any." Thereupon Dr. Matchek figuratively rent his garments, crying: "Woe to Croatia! His Majesty has not given us the new liberties we expected, but has taken away even those we had alreadv...
When puzzled U. S. editors cabled their doubts to Paris, the statement of M. Poincaré was irascibly repeated by his Chef de Cabinet. Thereupon a circular order was sent out by leading U. S. news services to all correspondents: "Keep on lookout for Young." As though he had been Charlie Ross, the wilfully elusive Chief Executive of two huge corporations was sought for everywhere that...
...Rankine, who had built power houses on the Niagara River but had no factories to utilize the power of the Falls. Mr. Rankine visited Mr. Perky, persuaded him to move to Niagara. Here Mr. Perky built a two million dollar plant, which, however, got him into financial difficulties. Thereupon Mr. Rankine interested various capitalists from New York City, Buffalo and Niagara Falls in the formation of a ten million dollar stock company, one such capitalist being Mr. Alexander J. Porter, now Shredded Wheat President. Mr. Perky subsequently retired from the business, which had become a Big Business, bought a farm...
...himself to uphold the right of free speech and therefore could not muzzle the buffoon. Instead, the President sent 50 riflemen to protect the Teatro Lirico from possible Crom mobs. To the Crom's charge of "persecution," square-jawed Señor Fortes Gil returned a flat denial. Thereupon the Crom Congress ordered all Crom members* throughout Mexico to resign from any State or Federal post which they may hold...
...Henry Gray took out patents on this beam, which is rolled from one piece of steel instead of being made from several pieces riveted together. In 1926, U. S. Steel began the construction of a plant in Homestead, Pa., for the making of beams similar to the Gray beams. Thereupon Eugene Gifford Grace, Bethlehem president, announced that the Gray patents were still in force and that the making of Gray beams by a Bethlehem competitor constituted a patent infringement. Ensued a Bethlehem-U. S.Steel controversy which the courts are now called upon to settle...