Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still inflames the South. The charge against the intended negro victim was the usual one of rape. No evidence pointed to E.K. Harris, but he was black and handy and was therefore charged with the crime. Subsequent medical examination of the fourteen-year old girl who had aroused the uproar disclosed the fact that she actually had suffered nothing but a few black-and-blue marks. Nevertheless, the mob of white farmers was so infuriated that, failing to capture Harris, it burned down the $150,000 court house...
Abashed by the uproar he had produced, Provost Moore soon invited the four councilmen back to his fold. But there were strings to the offer and the councilmen declined. Declared they: "We are not Communists . . . nor have we ever used our offices for the purpose of furthering the program of any radical organization. . . . We feel an intense loyalty and pride in our University, and are anxious for reinstatement - but only as full-fledged American members of a truly American University...
...crowd on the yachts at the finish the whole regatta was packed into the last few seconds of the race. Amid an appalling uproar of sirens, whistles, horns and cheers, California's crew swept across the line first, sat straight up in their slides while Washington pulled in almost a length behind, leading Navy by a quarter-length...
...week on Hearst's San Francisco Examiner until last spring, when he was elected chairman of the Guild's newly organized Examiner chapter. Three weeks later the Examiner discharged him "for the sake of economy." Louis Burgess complained to the NRA Regional Labor Board which, amid considerable uproar, heard his case last fortnight. Hearst was represented by his brainy lawyer John Francis Neylan and Clarence Lindner, general manager of the Examiner...
Paris, May 25-Shouts of "war before the end of the year in Europe" threw the Chamber of Deputies into an uproar today...