Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This view was loudly seconded by Mayor Edward J. Sullivan who threw the meeting into an uproar when he exhorted the audience to vote "yes" on both the referendums on election day. Someone in the audience screamed, "Vote no, while someone else yelled, "Vote yes." Still another shouted, "Throw that heckler...
Three years ago Montreal's ex-Mayor Camillien Houde, who had just retired after running the city with all the uproar, fun and profit of a bingo game, was asked by a local matron what he thought of the new mayor, a prim, plain lawyer named Jean Drapeau. Replied Houde: "He is a little man, madame, a little man." But last week, with a new election three weeks off, Politician Houde had changed his mind. Just as a boom got rolling to return him as mayor of Canada's biggest city (and the second largest French-speaking city...
...know one's own prejudices and try to do the best you can to be fair." He admits to open violations of the CBS policy, notably in some sharply partisan See It Now shows on civil-liberties issues. The climax was the McCarthy show-and an uproar that produced 50,000 letters, phone calls and wires (four to one for Murrow, by CBS's count). In defense of such violations, Murrow says that "most of the time" he has forthrightly identified them as such...
...Airways or Air France. Furthermore, while economics technically dictates all route awards, international politics always plays a role. The State Department emphasizes that American airline operations everywhere overseas are almost entirely dependent on the good will of foreign nations, which means that they must be kept reasonably happy. An uproar over routes can arouse surprising bitterness. In the case of Holland's KLM, Queen Juliana herself made an earnest speech for a U.S. route because to the Dutch, like many others, the airline is not merely a business but a national symbol, compensation in part for the vanishing Dutch...
Within a few weeks a fine Irish uproar was under way. Church of Ireland Bishop John Percy Phair journeyed from Kilkenny to Fethard to comfort the Protestant flock of 25 and advised them to meet their Catholic boycotters with "smiling faces" ("Fethard unphair to Protestants" punned the press). Letters flooded the newspapers with suggestions, e.g., all Ireland's Protestants should buy from Leslie Gardner's hardware shop and Betty Cooper's news agency-grocery in Fethard. Northern Ireland Unionists urged the government to start a fund for the boycotted Protestants, and a group of Belfast aircraft workers...