Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front are some 1,300 clerks and checkers-key workers, because they are the ones who keep tabs on cargo, representing shippers and shipowners at the loading point. All but 2% of these vital ciphers are Bridges' men. To bring the 2% into the union, the 98% struck. Whereupon their bosses closed the port, last week rejected all offers of compromise. They hoped to preserve the principle of free hiring in one last corner of Mr. Bridges' water front...
...loudly object to fighting Germans in the name of Empire last week fought each other in the name of their various gods. Moslems, claiming the Manzilghaut (Government building) near the river as an ancient mosque site, besieged it, captured it, and threatened to hold it until nirvana-come. Whereupon Hindus swept the city, storming, looting, burning Moslem shops...
Reporters at press conference next day found that the President had gone from hot-weather shirt sleeves into a grey suitcoat, seemingly new. Not new, said he: the suit was at least a year old. Whereupon he peeked at a label, amazedly announced that the suit was bought in 1936. Then he amazed the correspondents. He announced, as a matter of public information, that two foreign submarines had been sighted in U. S. waters. One was off the boundary point of Alaska and Canada, the other somewhere off Boston, midway between Nova Scotia and Nantucket...
...finished last month, Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked the State Department whether an embargo on U. S. war materials for Japan would violate the treaty of commerce and navigation which has bound the U. S. and Japan since 1911. The State Department said yes, whereupon alert Republican Senator Vandenberg, well aware of popular sentiment against continued winking at Japan's war in China (and war against Occidental interests there) offered a resolution to denounce that treaty, giving six months' notice as provided in its articles. After the six months, an embargo could...
...Densmore Shute, two-time (1936-37) winner of the tournament and one of the best match players in the world, who was refused permission to tee up his ball on opening day because his P.G.A. dues ($35) were 48 hours late in reaching the Association's secretary. Whereupon 50 of his colleagues -mostly box-office headliners-refused to play, held up the tournament for two hours while officials and players wrangled...