Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pinnacle of his political life at the Democratic Convention of 1924-the longest, noisiest, bitterest political gathering in U.S. history. For two sweaty, exhausting weeks two evenly matched political gladiators-William Gibbs McAdoo of California and Al Smith of New York-kept the old Madison Square Garden in an uproar, the delegations hopelessly split, the Alabama delegation doggedly casting "24 votes for Underwood" and the convention stalemated. Finally, after the 80th ballot, the deadlocked delegates began to drift away from Smith and McAdoo, and the nomination was left to a field of also-rans...
...seat of the uproar was a familiar but far from extinct political volcano: the conflict over state-school funds between Socialists and anticlericals on the one hand and Belgian Catholics on the other. Last year, when the present Liberal-Socialist government came into office, Socialist Leo Collard, the new Minister of Education, quickly made it clear that he intended to favor secular schools in the allotment of state education subsidies. In the previous Catholic government the principle of equal treatment had been applied to state schools, with some 712,000 pupils, and Catholic schools, with...
...Jack Dempsey and Joe and Dom DiMaggio, a glowing report on the earnings and divi-lend records of his companies. Wolfson aid that he would propose a three-for-one tock split and a 40? quarterly dividend hat would bring stockholders $1.80 more han the present $3 rate. An uproar started when Lewis Gilbert, perennial heckler at many a stockholder meeting, jumped up shouting to be heard. Gilbert wanted o know how Wolfson could tell the press ast October that he controlled some 500,000 shares, when he claimed only 294,285 shares in his proxy statement. The SEC, replied...
...then, word of the Times exclusive was racing around Washington. Newsmen began to badger their own sources, and copies of the report were leaking fast. Knowland and New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, who were lunching that day with Secretary of State Dulles, angrily reported the uproar to him. As a result, Dulles' office told reporters after lunch that copies of the Yalta record and background briefings would be released to the entire press later in the afternoon...
...uproar that followed, the President soon learned that there was a lot more to the case. Northwest's scrappy, 42-year-old President Don Nyrop flew to Washington. A onetime CAB chairman who knows his way around the Capitol, Nyrop got Minnesota's Republican Senator Edward Thye to call on the President with a new sheaf of facts and figures supplied by Nyrop and CAB's Acting Chairman Chan Gurney. Pan Am had indeed led in passengers for the last two years, but most of its bulge came in 1953, when plane-short Northwest had to shift...