Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Failure of Richard Whitney's brokerage house on Tuesday upset the New York Stock Exchange immediately, although but slightly, and filled the nation with probably unnecessary fears as to the financial condition of Wall Street. Yet the bankruptcy of such a prominent firm, the business of which was mostly concerned with banks and other respectable institutions, has significance. To the conservatives it must mean the crashing of the old and established foundations, the giving way to the new order. For the S.E.C. it is a bolster to their insistence upon strict regulation of national securities and exchange members...
With Justices Cardozo and Reed not participating, and Justices McReynolds and Butler dissenting vigorously, the Court upset the injunction, remanded the case. Nothing could have pleased Labor more, because for years Milwaukee unions have considered Judge Geiger their particular archenemy, have called his court "the injunction mill...
...thousand Indians soon began work on the 3,000-acre Congress City site, many of them volunteers toiling for love of Saint Gandhi & Mother India. Last November the timetable of the builders was badly upset when the Tapti River unseasonably rose in flood, and failed for six long weeks to subside. During this time it was impossible to ferry across the angry waters the pipe and corrugated iron sheeting needed for the Congress City. The Congressman in charge of the work, Mr. Nanda Lai Bose, a dry goods merchant by profession, went upriver in search of a shallow ford, discovered...
...Summoned to Washington to confer with the Federal Trade Commission on fair trade practices for the wool industry, the National Association of Wool Manufacturers refused to attend. F. T. C. is pondering a set of fibre identification rules for wool textiles such as those which upset the rayon industry last year (TIME, Nov. 29). Said President Arthur Besse of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers : "The wool textile industry as a whole does not desire or see the need for any such trade practice conference. . . .' F. T. C. retorted that its conference would begin on March...
...Upset of the meet was Bill Glendinning's victory over Herbert Pickett of Yale, former conqueror of Princeton's Charlie Toll, who has pinned Bill in two minutes...