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...Strike Leader Homer Martin proclaimed that the union had enrolled 75% of the workers in General Motors' plants. General Motors responded that 110,000 of its 135,000 motors production employes had signed petitions or otherwise protested against being thrown out of work by the strike of the upstart union. This, said the union, was due to company coercion. Impartial observers did not credit the union's claim that it had the support of a majority, and the union made no attempt to prove it in the one way possible: by appealing to the National Labor Relations Board...
...youngest chief executive in the University's history, lean, athletic Sir Hector was graduated by Glasgow with highest honors in both economics and philosophy, has served on the faculties of Sheffield, University College (Cardiff), University College (Exeter), was called back to Glasgow from the Vice-Chancellorship of relatively upstart Liverpool University...
...Cincinnati, directly under Churchman McNicholas' archiepiscopal nose, Father Coughlin turned up to address a mass meeting of his National Union for Social Justice. In fine oratorical fettle he intemperately roared: "When any upstart dictator in the U. S. succeeds in making this a one party form of government, when the ballot is useless, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets. . . . Mr. Roosevelt is a radical. The Bible commands 'increase and multiply,' but Mr. Roosevelt says to destroy and devastate. Therefore I call him anti-God and radical...
...beginning to grope uncomfortably for something more to say. Dr. Shapley came to his rescue, began to talk glibly and learnedly about ants. Said he: "When you go out of your way to step on an ant, you insult the order of Nature, for you, a mere social upstart, are jumping on a creature that perfected a social system some 30,000,000 years...
...native Devon the most hated man in England. His rocket-like career came down like a dead stick, but there was a star-burst before the end. Ralegh was a gentleman but not a noble, and both the Tudor and the older nobility frowned on him as an upstart. After a fitful attendance at Oxford some fighting in the Low Countries and in Ireland (where he made historians shudder by his part in the massacre at Smerwick), Ralegh went to Elizabeth's court and began his rapid rise. Biographer Thompson does not comment on the legend that attributes Elizabeth...