Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geneva in the International Labor Building to discuss the reservations of the U. S. Senate respecting U. S. adherence to the World Court (TIME, Feb. 8, 1925). Originally this meeting was called under League auspices (TIME, March 29) but U. S. League opponents have raised such an uproar that the delegates thought it wiser not to meet in the comfortable and vacant League of Nations Palace. No action was taken on the Senate's reservations last week...
...potent representatives of Islam who assembled at Cairo (TIME, May 24) to select a new Calif, disbanded last week after irreconcilable rivalries had kept the Califate Congress in an uproar almost from its inception...
...trial was held. The judge, who had been brought in from the Orange Free State and was not even a citizen of the republic, sentenced the four leaders to be hanged. There was an uproar of protest even from the Boers. Next morning President Kruger commuted the sentence, but meantime a gallows had been erected. For several weeks the prisoners lay in jail, this time in galvanized iron shacks, 22 men in a shed 30 ft. by 10 ft. One man lost his mind, cut his throat...
Attempts were made by the officers of the two classes to restore order, but their voices were lost in uproar...
...anti-cabinet demonstration in Brussels, just as Crown Prince Leopold and Premier Viscount Poullet were about to receive the War standards of several disbanded Belgian regiments at the National Army Museum. Scattered throughout the crowd of 40,000 persons who witnessed this ceremony, the fledgling Fascists created a terrific uproar: "Keep the Army at full strength! Down with Poullet! Hang him! Vive la Belgique immortelle! Hurrah for Prince Leopold! The Army forever...