Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solid hours, the room was in an almost continual uproar. The fireworks came from a handful of disgruntled stockholders led by two expert management baiters, Lewis Gilbert and Mrs. Wilma Soss. Gilbert and Soss wanted to make sure that the stockholders remembered that Chairman Young had changed his mind on two important points. One change was his decision to ask the stockholders to pay the $1,300,000 expense of his 1954 proxy fight, even though he had led stockholders to believe at the time that he would foot the bill himself. The other was Young's opposition...
Undeniably the book contains much technical exposition of both the scientific and intellectual uproar which evolution provoked--a discussion necessary because it would be impossible and undesirable to separate Huxley and Darwin from the idea which motivated their lives. The general reader will probably find the book most compelling when the author moves from intellectual controversy to concentrate specifically on the human qualities in his subjects...
THREE years ago the Lutheran bishops of Sweden caused an uproar by coming out against sin. The occasion was a pastoral letter on sexual morality. Tactfully vague, and generous toward "weaknesses of the flesh," the letter said in effect that the Lutheran Church was opposed to birth control, abortion and promiscuity, especially among the young. In no other country would the letter have caused more than a ripple. But in modern Sweden, where sociology has become a religion in itself, and birth control, abortion and promiscuity -especially among the young-are recognized as inalienable rights, there was a tidal wave...
Immediately the Yard was in an uproar; the controversy flamed for weeks, extending to alumni, other universities, and to editorial columns all over the nation. Hundreds rallied to Laski's defense, accusing the Lampoon of misrepresenting the views of students and of doing Laski "great injustice." Although President Lowell and the Corporation refused to respond to demands for Laski's removal, he resigned four months later to go to London, a full professor...
...University of Washington has been in commons and bitter uproar for two months over the ban on talks by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and the subsequent cancelling of two lectures and two scientific conferences. The faculty senate has condemned President Henry Schmitz' veto of lectures by the atomic scientist, students have petitioned, and Schmitz himself has refused to discuss his reasons for the ban. Efforts by some members of the faculty to find a compromise have now partially succeeded--with a two-sided statement expressing faith in the president as a supporter of academic freedom and disagreement with the decision...