Word: cheeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the first faint cheep from the Administration was heard. It was in the form of a report made by Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder to Congress. Characteristically, it was heavily laced with "buts" and made "no policy recommendations." Nevertheless, it did talk about both a reduction in rates and an increase in personal exemptions-the two main avenues...
...Cheep to Bellow. Nationalism reared its meek head in Java a generation ago. A chick of the first Dutch efforts at native education, its first cheeps in 1908 were a safe & sane Boedi Oetomo (High Endeavor) society, founded by some aristocratic Javanese medical students. A bevy of more determined groups followed it. Within a decade such nationalists as the smooth-faced, smooth-talking Soekarno, a Bandung Technical University engineering graduate, and Mohammed Hatta, who went to Amsterdam University, were getting bold ideas. They had heard of things like Communism, self-determination, revolution. In the '20s their exuberance landed both...