Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When adjournment was postponed the President could only go philosophically to bed. Sunday morning he awoke without the light-hearted feeling he had a right to expect. Instead of voyaging down the Potomac on the Sequoia he stayed at home talking with upset Congressmen by telephone. On Monday, two conferences with Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee having failed to turn any means of untangling the snarl, the President decided to compromise. He offered to up the cotton loans from 90 to 100, make subsidy payments quicker and easier (see p. 131. The jaded legislators clutched at this...
...years, and if it were U. S. credo that First President George Washington was the son of Almighty God, things would have been a good deal easier this week for the Japanese Cabinet of terrified old Premier Keisuke Okada. For months Japanese jingoes have been trying to upset the Cabinet with charges that it has insufficiently defended the sanctity of the Divine Emperor (TIME, March 18 et seq.). Last week they were able to scream until Tokyo's welkin rang that the Cabinet had failed to prevent the introduction into Japan of the August issue of Vanity Fair...
Thank you for the laugh on M. Bovèrat v. Miss Warner. I was very much puzzled as to why the National Alliance for Increasing the Population of France should be so upset by nude dancing. M. Bovèrat's statement that "women after beholding such indecency, don't want to have children," increased my bewilderment. How does he know...
...fine, fearless frankness. A fortnight ago the magazine was overdue and I had to buy a copy from the newsstand, in order to maintain my Friday equilibrium. Of course I often take issue with what you print, and sometimes you make me mad. I am glad you do upset me: such agitation is necessary for a sane, decanal existence. So keep on being natural and racey-and even spicey. The country needs you, and most of all do I. I hope to read you, no matter what you print, "from now on!" HIRAM R. BENNETT DEAN...
Cabinet's Birthday. Meanwhile in Japan the exact and hotly disputed nature of the Emperor Hirohito's godhood remained a major issue which still threatened to upset the Government of bustling old Admiral Keisuke Okada. Somewhat to his enemies' amazement the present stop-gap Cabinet rounded out a full year in office last week, celebrated with a champagne lunch...