Word: thereupon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Dobie had taken leave without pay during the fall term to write, and to avoid the hay-fever season. This year, when he applied for leave as usual, Painter refused it, said he must stay on the job. No, said Dobie: hay fever "devastated" him. President Painter thereupon issued a statement: "By this action, Dobie's connection with the university has terminated...
...squirmed under the Washington kleigs as he listened to Committee Chief Investigator Robert Stripling describe him as "the Karl Marx of Communism in the field of music." Like Brother Gerhart, Hanns demanded the privilege of reading a statement to the committee. Chairman J. Parnell Thomas shouted an angry refusal. Thereupon, like Brother Gerhart, Eisler handed out typewritten copies of his statement to newsmen: "This hearing is both sinister and ridiculous. ... I would be delighted to spend as much time as this committee will allow to lecture on ... the art of the fugue. But . . . this committee has called me only...
Morgenthau thereupon suggested Danny Bell, the Treasury Department's Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits (and now a Washington banker). "Fortunately, Roosevelt liked the idea. . . . Bell and I immediately set out to ride herd over the spending programs." They quickly found that Roosevelt's chief spenders-Harry Hopkins (relief), Harold Ickes (public works) and Henry Wallace (farm payments)-did not take to this treatment...
...Cairo, members of the devoutly anti-foreign Moslem Brotherhood heard a rumor that U.N.'s Security Council might reject Egypt's demand that British troops clear out of the Nile Valley. Five thousand Caireńes thereupon marched through the streets chanting: ". . . Egypt defies the Security Council! Egypt defies the whole world...
...alarming, as well as more than a little revolting, to see Harvard students diverted from the real issue at hand by the game which seems to have become the new national pastime--"I Spy--a Red!" Are we to seek out the Communist position on any question and thereupon, automatically, to support the opposite side? Unless we are prepared to accept such a patently absurd criterion for political thinking, we must be prepared to find the Communists at least occasionally in agreement with us, and, as in the Smith demonstration, fighting side by side with us against a common enemy...