Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presbyterian Church. As a sudden, random gesture of conciliation toward the Machenites, the nominating committee last week picked a dark horse. The gesture was so random that the dark horse. Rev. Paul Coverly Johnston of Rochester, N. Y., had gone home unaware he was nominated. He telegraphed his withdrawal, whereupon Dr. Pugh won hands down...
...rushed from the stage, fell in a dead faint. From a stage box stepped the Viennese soprano, Hilde Konetzni, due to make her London debut the next night. Dressmakers hastily pinned up Diva Lehmann's costumes to fit Hilde Konetzni's shorter, plumper figure. Whereupon Pinch-Hitter Konetzni carried on where Diva Lehmann left off, was roundly cheered at the opera's close. One man asked for his money back...
...Margiotti solemnly declared that the voters should not think for a moment that his old friend Governor George Howard Earle III had anything to do with the matter, the Governor could hardly overlook the fact that the accused were his principal backers for the U. S. Senatorial nomination. Whereupon he summoned the accuser to the brownstone executive mansion in Harrisburg, ordered Mr. Margiotti to shortcut his projected grand jury investigation and dump all the evidence in the Governor's ample lap. When the indignant Attorney General declined to do so, only naming the man supposed to have passed...
...words of Ford testimony taken by subordinates; whether, before the finding was issued, the Board or its officers had consulted Labor Leaders John L. Lewis and Homer Martin, New Dealers Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen. Unhappy Mr. Fahy quickly asked leave to withdraw the Ford order, whereupon the board would issue a "preliminary" finding, make it available to Mr. Wood for argument, and again request the Circuit Court to enforce the amended order without reopening the entire case. While less than 2% of NLRB cases appeared to be affected by the decision, an important legal principle had been uncovered...
...issue of Lilliput, the English magazine for moppets, appeared last week an introduction penned by War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha for a story written by his late mother. In this she described how Leslie, when a lad, fell into the ocean and sank a considerable distance, whereupon "a most lovely apparition with streaming hair glided toward him. She had eyes of the deepest blue. Her skin reminded him of a luscious peach. Most wondrous of all was her body. It tapered off into a slender curve, which sparkled and reflected every color...