Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Astonished by the uproar was Sir Keith. Said he stiffly: "I should think that we would use these powers little if at all. . . ." Nevertheless, 48 hours after Sir Keith announced his decrees, they were withdrawn by Prime Minister Menzies. Sir Keith decided he had better resign and look after his own interests...
This short, slim book of some 140 pages caused an uproar in England. It indicted the former members of the Chamberlain Government, several of whom have remained in the Churchill Government, largely by stating their records, and suggested that the British Isles would be a little more buoyant if these men were dropped overboard. When certain British booksellers refused to handle distribution of Guilty Men in the usual way, news dealers took it over, sold eager Britons 50,000 copies of the book in three weeks. Last week it appeared...
...Advance Front, Wings For America wanders into a radio studio where Lorna, thinly disguised as Miss X, is about to tell all about her investigations of the Commissar's Desperate Desmonds. Right off the bat a smoke bomb goes off in the studio, creates such an uproar that one of the Commissar's boys is able to make off with the Chicago Police Department plans for combating sabotage of American Defense preparations hitherto in the keeping of Lieut. Mulaney...
...great waves of pessimism that have swept over the United States relative to the future of the world have gotten me very impatient. . . . As far as history is concerned we must remember ten or 20 years is only a second. Napoleon kept Europe in an uproar for 15 years, but ultimately England triumphed by the strangling blockade that she maintained over those years...
...Class A stock which, under the Odium plan, would have been exchanged for common and new preferred. Giving nine reasons against the plan, M. I. T. persuaded the management that the stipulated two-thirds of the stockholders would never approve it. Last week, with still other stockholders joining the uproar, Floyd Odium issued a long announcement, Guy Vaughan a short one. Kernel of both: the deal...