Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...neat little trick in the repertoire of every French Prime Minister is the one by which he picks exactly the right split-second to adjourn Parliament before Mm. Les Députés upset his Cabinet. Always as a session draws to its close French legislators become hyperexcitable, super-suspicious, jealous of their power, ready to shout the Government out of office on any pretext. All last week the Chamber was bedlam...
...interest, but the contest?gentlemanly and distinguished?between Dry Mr. Fort and Wet Mr. Morrow drew national attention. Yale's Professor Irving Fisher campaigned for Mr. Fort, Princeton's President John Grier Hibben spoke for Mr. Morrow. Beneath the high-toned surface, however, Dry leaders and Republican machine bosses, upset by the diversity of major candidates (one John A. Kelly also ran), battled for their political lives. The Anti-Saloon League, realizing that Candidate Morrow's reputation, coupled with his clearcut Wet stand (TIME, May 26) would make him a prime U. S. anti-Prohibition leader in Congress, waged...
...Sickles began making harness in 1834, expanded for many a decade. During the War, Government contracts swelled its gross to $1,500,000 a year. Then, although the company tried making automobile seat-covers, tops and side-curtains, the mounting loss of harness trade was so great as to upset whatever gain these divisions brought. By 1928 the gross was down to $500,000; last year it lost another...
...announcement by the largest book publisher in the country of its intention to slash the prices of popular books from $2.50 and $2.00 to $1.00 is likely to lead to a considerable upset in the industry in general. By some it is interpreted as a temporary strategic move on the part of the publisher in question to drive into the ground the large amount of competition from small firms which has grown up under the protective wing of monopoly prices. Still others think the change once adopted will be permanent. Book publishing has the character of a monopoly industry...
...Virginians. Tall, sturdy, slow-but-sure North Chinamen despise and are despised by South Chinamen, small, nimble, slick. Last week China resumed on a grand scale her civil war between North and South. It has been dragging on, in one form or another, ever since the Dragon Throne was upset by the revolution of 1911. Observers noted that this time the battle is between forces headed by the four best men of North, and South...