Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rear and lifted him down the great stairway, to the amazement of the world. Kentucky historians record the incident. It can be verified by files of the Louisville Courier-Journal, now owned by our Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Robert Worth Bingham. I remember the uproar as of yesterday. Dickens had indulged in harsh criticism of Kentuckians which was instantly resented as described. Get history straight, and tell it that every time a Kentuckian had a fight after that he tried to "Knock the Dickens Out of His Opponent." True as Gospel...
...Meanwhile the publishers had to contemplate the fact that 60 days hence the President expected something to be done about child labor and newshawks' hours. If not, the President was empowered by law to impose his own changes, an act which would make last week's uproar sound like soft sweet music...
...character to his political puppet show, Louisiana's Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long went up to Arkansas last year, stumped the State with a motorcade and sound truck, elected Hattie Caraway to the Senate seat of her late husband. Wild was the uproar of outraged Louisianans last week when button-nosed, pugnacious Senator Long set out to ride Lallie Conner Kemp into Congress on his ruthless machine...
Every fire engine for miles around streaked for Nice, one fire engine careening into two men, squashing them dead. In the blazing Palais two firemen were injured and the whole Riviera was in uproar before the huge pyre was put out. "Whatever the flames did not destroy the water spoiled," mourned the Palais manager, "and this fire has thrown 500 men out of work." Nice police grimly arrested two Palais employes, charged them with arson...
...distillers swarmed into Washington in an uproar. They preferred some sort of Federal Control to the graft of State politics but this was more than they bargained for. And to the distillers who were just getting started, it looked as if the Government had deliberately lamed all their horses. Their chief objection was to the absolute power of F. A. C. A. Particularly obnoxious was the freezing of capacity at the Dec. 5 figure. Nearly every company was either building or rebuilding plants which would not be completed by that date. These unfinished plants the code simply scrapped. On this...