Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uproar increased, the White House made a mollifying gesture. The President issued a long and impressive list of war materiel which would henceforth be exported only with the permission of the State Department. It included aircraft and aircraft parts, all kinds of guns and military vehicles and even steel helmets...
...Curie's reception provoked an angry international uproar. Alexandre Parodi, France's delegate to the United Nations, pronounced the incident "regrettable." In Washington, the State Department got urgent calls from the French Embassy. Next day Attorney General Tom C. Clark ordered Mme. Joliot-Curie released-but not before she had spent a night under detention at Ellis Island. Mme. Curie, who says she is not a Communist but agrees with Communists on many things, said she was not surprised at her treatment...
...approving uproar was so great that the judges ordered the courtroom cleared...
...back to the home town for burial. He is angry, and miserable, because the picture for which this unknown gave her life will not be released. He bribes every church in town to ring its bells, without surcease or mercy, for three days & nights, in her memory. The ensuing uproar makes headlines...
...meeting characterized by none of the uproar that attended its anti-UMT rally, the Harvard Committee for Wallace last night heard James Waterman Wise '22 and Paul M. Sweezy '31 vigorously attack the Marshall Plan and support instead Wallace's proposals for world peace...