Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after a few days the uproar began to subside. The Navy said its plan was merely an experiment to determine whether conditions in town could be improved for everyone, sailors included. And a few Army men sourly pointed out that their restrictions are far tougher. Soldiers' overnight passes are restricted to 15% of personnel, and furloughs...
...bellowing voice is part of the legend of the A.V.G. now. It sounded alarms and withdrawals all over China and Burma. And when the A.V.G. was disbanded it rose more raucously than ever before. Mickey put his back up against joining the Army. He had become indispensable, so the uproar he raised brought results. He was commissioned an ensign in the Navy, is still without an item of uniform except a Navy...
Rosamond Mowrer, wife of famed Foreign Correspondent Richard Mowrer of the Chicago Daily News, sat down in Washington to put through a telephone call to her husband in Cairo. After an hour and a half's wait full of eardrum uproar, she heard from the international operator...
Despite the uproar, Morgan, Stanley calmly advertised the issue, sold the bonds at 97½ subject to ICC approval. This was a nice contrast to Erie's September 1941 financing, when three underwriters scrapped for the issue. The winning underwriter then offered the bonds at 102½, took a drubbing because the price sagged seven points during the offering period...
Ambitious little ex-Cockney Herbert Morrison, Britain's Socialist Home Secretary, rose to his feet last week to calm an uproar. His Prime Minister started the uproar two months ago with a statement on Britain's colonial policy: "We mean to hold our own. I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. . . ." Morrison knew that suspicion and distrust had resulted in the Allied world, and that it was high time another British voice tried to still the criticisms of Churchill imperialism. Said Herbert Morrison...