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Last of the national groups, but not the least important in Willkie calculations, was the Democrats-for-Willkie National Committee-a pasture to which Willkie-ites hoped to lure Democrats who had kicked over old fences, were jogging around with no place to go and bellow...
...House down. At such times, like the brazen-throated Greek warrior Stentor, his voice is "as loud as fifty other men." Fortnight ago Mr. Taber had one of his shouting-fits, during debate on the Wage & Hour amendments. At one point, just as he let go his full bellow, he almost swallowed the microphone. The resultant blast from the amplifier did something queer to one of his auditors, Representative Leonard Schuetz of Chicago's Seventh District...
...year on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. After his release a Chicago newspaper man, Jake Lingle, was shot. He was suspected of being "in the racket," said to have been Capone's friend. Whatever he was, his murder was one too many. There was a sudden bellow of public indignation. In Chicago Colonel Robert Isham Randolph and his Secret Six Committee, Investigator Pat Roche, many another, took up the crusade for decency. Capone was near...
Shoes. Now into action came three Isolationists by inheritance, standing in the shoes of Isolationist Fathers: La Follette, Clark and Lodge. Day after day the Isolationists took the floor to bellow steadily all afternoon. The galleries were more than half empty; the press doodled or played word-puzzles in the press gallery. Shockproof to the familiar roar of the Isolationists' big guns, the reporters sat up and took notice only when two new cannoneers appeared: homespun, silent William John Bulow of South Dakota, glib, emotional Dennis Chavez of New Mexico...
...seconds from the Warsaw radio station all last week to let the world know that Poland's capital was still Polish. Hour after hour, day after day, the notes came like hope rising from an inferno. For the world also knew what other sounds filled Warsaw-the bellow of bombing planes in power dives, the scream of fighting planes on the attack, the sharp whanging of anti-aircraft guns, the mighty thump, boom and roar of half-ton bombs plowing up the city's remaining defenses. To the North, the continuous thunder of artillery made a background...