Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...People's Lawyer." When Woodrow Wilson sent Louis Dembitz Brandeis' name to the Senate as a nominee for the Supreme Court in 1916, it caused an uproar over his confirmation which made last summer's disturbance over Hugo Black look like a pillow fight. The Senate's Judiciary Committee wrangled over the Brandeis nomination for four months. From six onetime presidents of the American Bar Association the Committee got a petition stating succinctly that he was "not a fit person to be a member of the Supreme Court." One of the bar association presidents who signed...
...uproar resounded to Boston where Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot has taught thousands of Harvard students medicine and social ethics. Snatching up hat and coat he rushed down to Washington to exhort Dr. Brown's men to stand firm. This they did, and took care of 40 patients during their first day of business...
...Huxman replaced Republican Alfred Landon as Governor of Kansas, the superintendent of Beloit, Republican Lulu Coyner was replaced by Democrat Blanche Peterson. Kansas' onetime (1933-35) Democratic Congresswoman Mrs. Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy recently paid a call on Mrs. Peterson. Result of her call was an uproar which last week made Beloit front page news throughout...
...Associate Justice Black hoped by ending his discussion of his membership in the Klan last week to end the U. S. discussion of it, he was sorely disappointed. What followed his speech was a clamor fully matching the uproar that had preceded it. Except in the South newspapers almost without exception found it totally unsatisfactory...
...respects. Total attendance, including families of Legionnaires, was 110,000. In six days, the 110,000 reputedly spent $1,300,000 on lodgings, $1,100,000 on food, $1,100,000 on entertainment (chief item, liquor), $1,200,000 in stores, $675,000 on incidentals. Reports that during the uproar in the Astor bar, light-hearted Legionnaires had killed the bartender by bashing in his head with a bottle proved unfounded...