Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declare its independence next day. Instead President de Valera consented to meet Prime Minister MacDonald again face to face, traveling for this purpose to London last week, as he did last month before Scot MacDonald left for Lausanne (TIME, June 20). Again they flatly disagreed, an event which so upset old George Lansbury, leader of the Labor Opposition in the House of Commons, that he cried: "I call upon the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury to intervene! . . . We have started a fight with Ireland the end of which...
...fetch bad prices all summer. But last week they were selling as high as $5.15 a hundredweight against $3.40 on June 1. Because farmers have needed money so badly that they have sold their hogs right along it was expected that no sudden rush of pigs to market would upset the hog-cart. In Iowa where 13 million hogs are born and fattened every year, the rise from June 1 to last week's average price made a difference of $40,000,000 figuring each hog at 240 Ib. Another boon to hog farmers has been the low price...
...past due loan to stricken International Match. But the numerous protective committees and Irving Trust, trustee for International, clamored loudly for return of the shares, legally obstructed their sale (TIME, June 18). Last week they agreed to the sale if the proceeds were impounded for further wrangling. At the upset price of $5,249,500 the block was auctioned off to the one & only bidder, Diamond Match. President William Armstrong Fairburn must have chuckled softly at clearing $7,750,000 without lifting a hand, at profiting roundly from Ivar Kreuger's blasted dreams...
...Frame '32, who last week won the eastern intercollegiate tennis championship, scored the first upset in the national intercollegiate tournament yesterday afternoon by downing Jack Tidball of the University of California...
Eleutherios Venizelos, the foxy statesman who upset the Greek Royal House and whose first name means "Liberty," was back in the Cabinet saddle at Athens last week. Proverbially fickle, his countrymen seemed not displeased although only a month ago he described himself to the Greek Parliament as so unpopular that "two editors have actually gone so far as to advocate my murder and appeal for someone to carry it out" (TIME...