Word: acclaim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long there will be more hair-tearing and grinding of molars in the Chambers. The support given to an emergency Cabinet, and the prestige of its veteran, good-natured leader, can only stave off for a time the woes to which France's parliamentary system dooms her. The wide acclaim of Doumergue's accession has nothing to do with the case, for he is wedded to a Cabinet system with a caricature of responsibility. Only the President, with senatorial approval, can dissolve the Chambers, and call, as in England, for a decision between Ins and Outs; and this has been...
Forty minutes were devoted to the loudest and most frenzied cheering the Dictator has ever received in the Chamber. When the Corporative State law was proposed, the whole Chamber leaped up to adopt it by acclaim. Il Duce stilled the pandemonium, insisted on a vote, cast the first ballot himself. The count, presumably unanimous, was not mentioned in dispatches...
...many undergraduates the suspicion that Mr. Conant thinks of the tutorial system as nothing but an "educational panacea" will offer small grounds for acclaim. But there are few who will deny the clear implication of the report that Harvard stands in need of better material for her faculty. Harvard's faculty today contains too many men who are neither great teachers nor great scholars. The figures whose names once made the University Catalogue read like the roster of a national academy of learning, are fading rapidly into the past, and their successors do not fall gracefully into the heroic molds...
...Guardsman has stood patter in the House through the years than Bert Snell. Yet even he, last week, seemed infected with a new political spirit. Said he: "The whole country, the whole world is leaning more & more toward Liberalism. It is the popular acclaim. Political parties will yield to it for support. We, who want to continue the form of government that was established here 160 years ago, realize the drift. But we do not want this country swept into outright Socialism. We do not want our present institutions wiped out!" Preparations for the House session began weeks...
Free trade which is Secretary Hull's specialty (and anathema to the Roosevelt Brain Trust) was unanimously endorsed. The Conference adopted by acclaim a resolution presented by Mr. Hull with the statement that ''this proposal calls for no treaties, conventions or legal commitments." It amounted to expression of a wish that American nations should work to make trade free...