Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cause of the uproar is an administrative civil war between the seminary and parent Drew University, to which it is attached. Traditionally the university's most prestigious and powerful division, the seminary had its own operating budget and total autonomy to hire its own staff. A decade ago, however, Drew's trustees decided that it was time to bring the rest of the university up to the academic level of the seminary; to that end, they elected Robert Fisher Oxnam, son of the late Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, as the school's first lay president...
...London. Arriving in South Africa in 1957, the Dutch-born prelate raged against apartheid, calling for an end to the government's racist policies, opening his cathedral doors to all races, criticizing the Dutch Reformed Church for its failure to denounce apartheid-all of which stirred an uproar that did not subside until he moved to London in 1963 as Canon of Westminster Abbey...
SACB hit the headlines several months ago when President Johnson appointed the otherwise unqualified husband of his personal secretary to the Board--a $26,000-a-year job. The uproar in the press also revealed the SACB's function had been virtually eliminated by adverse Supreme Court decisions. The Board was supposed to make "communist" organizations register with the Government. But the Court had ruled that this sort of registration violates the Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination...
...jail space to hold the tax evaders." Asked if a concentration camp were not the answer, Travancas joked that it might be "a good idea." The next day, Sao Paulo newspapers bannered the news that Travancas planned to send all Sao Paulo businessmen to concentration camps. Amid the resulting uproar, Costa saw his chance and fired Travancas. Henceforth, said the government, tax collections in Brazil will be handled with "kindness...
Andrews was referring to the uproar that arose last summer when 179 of the 1300 Capital Hill interns signed a letter to President Johnson protesting the war in Vietnam...