Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the midst of the noisiest uproar Washington had heard in a generation, a convention of Protestant Episcopal bishops meeting in Philadelphia announced: "To conclude that the only way in which the tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States can be resolved is by war would be calamitous and . . . unthinkable...
...right? Certainly, if the world depended on the Truman Administration to keep it out of trouble, the world had something to worry about. Harry Truman could not keep himself out of trouble. He was the main cause of Washington's uproar...
...Wallace Choice. That was the end of the uproar. In the first after-silence, those two fledgling organizations,-the National Citizens P.A.C. and the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions (TIME, Sept. 9) looked a little taken aback. It was at their rally that their hero Wallace had made his speech. They had hardly anticipated such a far-reaching result...
...roast pig and avocado ice cream) had reached their fanciest in the Constituent Assembly. There, while fellow legislators cheered, Dr. Octavio Mangabeira polished off an oratorical tribute by kissing Ike's hand. Next day one legislator dared to deplore the gesture, promptly threw the assembly into a shocked uproar. Finally, the members took a vote, approved Dr. Mangabeira's "exceptional eloquence" unanimously-even including the objector...
...C.I.O.'s United Furniture Workers of America were in an uproar. Hassock-shaped Morris Muster, overstuffed (215 lbs.) U.F.W.A. president, had quit in disgust after nine years in the union. Two days later a Southern district president followed him out. Said Muster, 20,000 members were in open revolt. Their reason: U.F.W.A. had been taken over by its Communist faction; the new executive board was dominated by Stalinists...