Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tardieu with his stiff naval demands (TIME, Feb. 24) might wreck the London Conference. It was represented that Socialist MacDonald, through the Second International, secured the aid of Socialist groups in France, and the assistance of French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, with the result that the Tardieu Cabinet was upset...
...hypocritical situation for everybody and nothing is more clear than that a change, and it can not be for the worst, is inevitable. There has been a hands-off attitude toward college students that drink, and, appreciating this, undergraduates have been persuaded to let things go on, hesitating to upset the delicate balance that exists among town, gown, and gendarmerte...
Hurdles Big Upset...
What had he really said? If correctly quoted he had indeed upset the nicely balanced applecart of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's ticklish Indian policy. There is little doubt that Scot MacDonald wants to give India the semi-independent status of Canada, but he does not dare. His majority in the House of Commons is too slim to risk on the Indian issue. Therefore, the canny Scot prompted the Viceroy, Baron Irwin. to make a carefully weaseled proclamation (TIME, Nov. 18). Some of it was supposed to convince Indians that their aspirations will presently be realized; some...
...been planned for some time to lay off the women working in Widener Library and to replace them with men. Arrangements to have the change made gradually so that the women layed off from the Widener jobs could be absorbed in other positions in the University were apparently upset by the interference of the State Minimum Wage Board which sought to have these scrubwomen placed on the same wage basis as the hardly analogous night workers in large office buildings...