Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unscheduled Arab speaker threw into turmoil a meeting called by the Independents to arouse interest in the sending of German Jews to Palestine in Emerson Hall last night...
Thus by the week end the Labor scene was in turmoil. Homer Martin, who seemed on his way to fame & power in 1937, was on the outside looking in at C. I. O. Two leaderships laid claim to U. A. W.'s contracts, bank accounts, membership. John L. Lewis' receivership for the union was itself in temporary bankruptcy. It appeared that only the rank & file could save U. A. W. from permanent disruption. And the shadow of a new figure appeared on the U. A. W. stage...
...industry's top specialists in aviation epics. More lately his forte has been screwball comedies (Nothing Sacred). To Wellman these apparently dissimilar types seem closely connected. The extraordinary conduct of Pat Falconer in Men With Wings illustrates his belief that Wartime fliers experienced such intense emotional turmoil that none of them afterwards could adjust themselves to normal living...
...strange that in this period of European turmoil so many voices should be raised in behalf of Czechoslovakia and against Chamberlain. That a skilfully-run democracy alone in the center of Europe should collapse because of the bluff and power of a Fascist state and the acquiescence of two allied democracies is an event unprecedented. Discouraging are reports from the outraged Czechs when they heard how their former protectors and allies had backed down, those of Hitler's apparent willingness to throw the world into a war. And there is no real assurance that he will not do this very...
Last year the labor scene was thrown into turmoil by simultaneous campaigns of two opposing unions, one the A. F. of L. local 30, and the other an "inside" organization formed by the employees themselves and subsequently entitled "The Harvard University Employees Representative Association...