Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Chief Arthur Mahraun of the Young German Order started a movement to get a national plebiscite to re-elect President von Hindenburg. Adolf Hitler wrote Chancellor Bruning a belated letter flatly refusing to help prolong the President's term by Reichstag action, whereupon the Government set Feb. 28 as election day. On the subject of election candidates Herr Hitler was glumly silent. Silent', too, was Oberst Epp. With so much almost within his grasp he did not want to overstep...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh to the American Council of St. Luke's International Medical Centre at Tokyo: "I have no hesitation in saying that St. Luke's Hospital is the most outstanding American development I saw while in Japan." Whereupon the Council at once elected him a director, and Council President George Woodward Wickersham exclaimed: "Well...
Secrecy surpassed itself when the League Secretariat officially announced that Chinese Delegate Dr. Sze and Japanese Delegate Mr. Yoshizawa had agreed to a "truce"'-whereupon both orientals denied the official announcement. In Tokyo reports that Mr. Yoshizawa had used the word "truce" (thus giving away Japan's pretense that she is not at war; created such towering indignation that the diplomat's recall was rumored and almost every Japanese newspaper flayed him. Later he explained that he had not said "truce," was apparently forgiven...
...character. Her wildness got her into many a scrape, led her to marry Georges Paris, an attractive, coldhearted, unscrupulous rascal. Character made her stick to him when he was unfaithful to her, even when the police were after him. Finally Georges went too far: he murdered a man; whereupon the man's old father murdered Georges. Judith became a governess for a while, then went back to the Herries family in Cumberland. She might have married again but she was faithful to Georges' memory. A combination of wildness and character, however, led her to such kind lengths that one fine...
...began to sting the mule, causing it to kick desperately. One of the kicks came in contact with a guy wire attached to a pole; the force of the kick made the pole fall down. A power wire strung on the pole fell on the mule, electrocuting it instantly; whereupon the mule fell over, landed on its rider, fractured the ribs of Peter Breckenridge...