Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators up for election this year, Republicans have a fair chance of electing nine, but the fight between Rooseveltian and Conservative Democrats is likely to hold the centre of the stage. Anyhow, the Democratic majority in the Senate is so overwhelming that it would take until 1940 to upset it even if the G. O. P. were given an improbable series of clean sweep elections...
There are 45,000 listed automobile dealers in the U. S., and most of them are upset over their relations with automobile manufacturers. Last year the American Finance Conference, a trade association of independent automobile finance companies, inspired a Department of Justice investigation of the trade practices of the four factory-affiliated finance companies which do 75% of the new car business. Under the then Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson, charges of dealer coercion were presently brought against the "Big Four" in Milwaukee. But the case fizzled when Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger indignantly dismissed it, after hearing that Robert...
Violently upset last week was this clearinghouse press system. During the first hectic days after anschluss (TIME, March 21) the lid of Nazi censorship was harshly clamped on Vienna's journalists. Telephone calls for foreign correspondents were tapped, mail was watched, teletype communications halted. When Adolf Hitler made his belated Vienna speech, 55 newsmen, the bulk of the foreign corps, were summoned to receive press passes, promptly caged at the point of Nazi guns, allowed to watch the scene only through the Chancellery windows...
Lafayette plays host to the Varsity on Friday at Easton preceding the first League encounter with Columbia on Saturday at New York. The Lions are regarded as the Dark Horse of the Ivy circuit and may upset the championship hopes of the Crimson...
Following their upset victory over the championship Dartmouth five Wednesday, the Crimson will be shooting for their seventh win of the year and for sure possession of the circuit runner-up position. In addition the Fesler team will be defending its record of nine consecutive wins on the home floor...