Word: uppityness
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* After talking with President Roosevelt, uppity Publisher Vann repeated from the White House steps his advice to Pennsylvania Negroes to elect a Republican Governor (TIME, Oct. 31 ).
Last month President Roosevelt sent his nomination to the Senate. Vexed, the eleven Western Senators demanded public hearings before the Public Lands Committee. Hearings on Mr. Burlew meant hearings on the Interior Department, and Senators who are not fond of uppity Mr. Ickes have been itching to investigate that Department...
George and Margaret, the Wilson show, was written by 27-year-old Gerald Savory while he was unemployed. Many of its lines were inspired, according to him, by retorts he thought of too late to say to bobbies, servants, uppity people. The play's long run in London and...
Governor Murphy soon settled the hotel strikes, persuading both sides to submit to arbitration. But uppity bellboys were the least of the earnest Governor's troubles last week. Nullifying the courts, Governor Murphy had averted bloodshed in the General Motors strike, helped bring a peaceful settlement, made himself a...
Eight of the actual attacking party were caught. Police raids throughout Austria netted scores more. Once again Italian troops on Brenner Pass were told to stand ready for any emergency. Object of the "futsched Putsch" was not to assassinate Prince von Starhemberg, who had returned empty-handed from Italy and...