Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, Publisher Ferger hoped to quell the uproar over Enquirer management (TIME, Dec. 5) in which Ratliff had already been dumped as vice president and secretary of the company. But the firings,, only intensified the bitterness. At a meeting later in Cincinnati's Cox Theater, staffers sat in grim silence for 90 minutes while Ferger, 61, denied charges by Ratliff and Cronin that his own salary and bonus (1955 total: $104,699) and those of Assistant Publisher Eugene Duffield ($62,319) were excessive. Moreover, said Ferger, financial backers had urged him to insist on a ten-year contract; while...
...question arose: Are auto horsepowers dangerously high? A good part of the uproar is mere exhaust rumble. Auto-industry engineers blame overzealous admen, who give the engines scorching nicknames ("Firedome," "Strato-Streak," "Blue-Flame") to promote the impression of jet-plane speeds and sell more cars in an ever tighter market. Sings an Oldsmobile ad: "Excitement rides with you when you ride a 'Rocket'/Free and fleet and vibrantly alive/For taking off, or taking a curve...
...Vice President's home state there was a growing uproar about his new political position. California's Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, irrepressible as ever, made the blatant announcement that he will head a favorite son delegation to the Republican National Convention next year if President Eisenhower does not run, even if that means an open fight with Nixon. This was too much for California's Republican Representative Carl Hinshaw, a friend of Nixon, who said that he was appalled at Knight's "amazing antics" and "fantastic pretensions." Roared Hinshaw: "Except in the ambitious dreams...
Sullivan can view the current uproar without too much concern. Last month he started on a 20-year contract with CBS that guarantees him $176,000 a year for seven years for producing his show. During the following 13 years, he does not have to produce anything but will draw $100,000 annually for his promise not to create a show for a competing network. In February, Ed moves his program to Hollywood for two months while he stars in that ultimate tribute to a living celebrity, a Warner Bros. film biography called The Ed Sullivan Story...
...tally, Ken Swanson's third of the afternoon, was followed immediately by an uproar from the Crimson squad, who claimed that Swanson had used his hand to set the ball up for his winning kick...