Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Final upset of the President's plans was assisted by the resurgency of conviction in the U. S. Senate, but it was completed by Senators who cut their cloth not according to principle but according to political profit. Several men of principle tried to save the President from defeat. Senator Byrd's opinion of spending five billions is pale beside that of Carter Glass, but, rather than see the prevailing wage amendment adopted, Senator Glass manfully fought the President's battle. He read the Senate a letter from the President, solemnly assured his colleagues that...
Soviet efforts abroad to create an impression that Dictator Joseph Stalin no longer tries to foment the World Revolution of the World Proletariat were again upset in Moscow last week by the Communist Party's official Propaganda Chief, candid if clumsy Comrade Alexei Ivanovich Stetsky...
...suggestion was even made that a lower priced double room should be taken and that the richer of the two should pay the higher price for it, thus leaving a better room to some one else at the cheaper price. No, that could certainly not be arranged. It would upset everything. And think of the difficulties of bookkeeping! So that a very equitable arrangement was banned without question--and a lesson was learned...
Still hog-tied by Japan's militarists, the Empire's peace-minded politicians last week tried to upset the jingo Cabinet of Premier Admiral Okada by exploding a bomb of scandal. They blew up the previous Cabinet by the same tactics, proved embezzlement on "subordinates" of sly old Finance Minister Takahashi (TIME, July 16). Although the old fox is again Finance Minister, for the seventh time, and although the new Cabinet is again riding them, the timid but persistent politicians last week maneuvered blunt War Minister General Hayashi into serious admissions...
...change did not please everyone, Many an artist grumbled at seeing his page cramped down to pint-size. One cartoonist was so upset he deliberately drew his characters humpbacked, explained he could not help it since the ceiling had been pushed down on them...