Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not the Premier and Viscountess Saito evinced alarm, Tokyo Chief of Police Fujinuma was sufficiently upset by rumors of fresh assassination plots to have posted special police guards outside Tokyo's leading business offices, banks, the homes of Cabinet ministers and to have come himself to the residence of Premier Saito where he remained personally on guard...
...mere fact that a world-wide depression has upset the whole earth, changed all financial, commercial and economic conditions, and produced governmental revolutions everywhere - that fact, stern and forbidding as it is, should not be permitted to drive us away from those basic realities that underlie our Government, the operation of which is responsible for the marvelous growth of this republic and that still must constitute the beacon light to lead us on to greater heights of industry, prosperity and liberty. ... I believe the Republican Party should reaffirm its determination to stand by the Constitution...
When an airplane is left standing at an airport, it is the practice on some airlines to tie the control wheel, lest a sudden gust flip the control surfaces about, damage them or even upset the plane. Last week the control-lashing practice was blamed for a crackup. A big biplane of Eastern Air Transport, loaded with 15 passengers, had taken off from Newark Airport, climbed some 50 ft. and flopped down again. Alleged reason: a mechanic failed to unlash the control stick before the plane took...
...days after the interview appeared, the Press received copies of a telegram from Vines to Prentice. Excerpts: "Terribly upset over such a falsehood. . . . How such statements start is beyond me. ... I have only the highest regard for yourself and your judgment. Please believe...
Pestered by questions of minority stockholders who upset his plan for recapitalizing Armour & Co. (TIME, Sept. 11), President T. (for Thomas) G. (for George) Lee last week gave out answers as he had promised. Dissenting stockholders had intimated that Bankers Samuel McRoberts of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., Albert H. Wiggin, ex-chairman of Manhattan's Chase National, and Arthur Reynolds, ex-chairman of Chicago's Continental Illinois, had each received $100,000 a year for merely voting Armour stock as voting trustees...