Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This advertisement in the Kingston Daily Gleaner threw Jamaica into an uproar. A municipal councilor's resolution asked President Roosevelt to discipline the parties responsible. The USO said it was merely supplying a place for interviews. The U.S. Base Commander, Colonel John V. Dallin, said "the individual concerned ... in no way represented [official] U.S. policy...
This fuss about General Patton losing his temper (TIME, Nov. 29, Dec. 6) makes us look pretty soft. Who the hell ever heard of a war going on without some emotional excitement? If, in his excitement, he struck the wrong man, why start an uproar...
...uproar over the release from prison of Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley continued last week. Workers aimed their ire at Laborite Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, and Labor Minister Ernest Bevin was alarmed. He feared that the anger would 1) affect war production, 2) hurt the Labor Party in the next general election...
...sudden uproar of hysteria the city was still dead. The marks of death were all around. Allied shells, allied bombs which had rained incessantly since October 1940, had wrecked the waterfront. German torch and dynamite had finished the havoc...
...Grant Co., with 492 retail stores in 40 states, last week began a fight to the finish against a seven-month-old OPA regulation that has the whole dress business in an uproar. Grant, with eight other large retailers,* is faced with court action for violation of OPA's regulation...