Word: clamor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free for All. After many bruising tries, Stuart learned that he could not upset the established relationships between blue-chip companies and their regular bankers just by personal solicitation. The individualistic Stuart, determined to make LaSalle Street the equal of Wall Street, then began his clamor for competitive bidding-he wanted the securities business from which he was excluded thrown open to all comers. After eight years of Stuart drumfire, in 1941 the SEC decreed competitive bidding for utility holding company securities; and last May the ICC ordered competitive bidding for railroad bonds...
...quiet the clamor of the resistance movement for a bigger administrative role, De Gaulle reshuffled his Government twice within a fortnight. Most important changes: as Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Georges Bidault, president of the National Council of Resistance. (The former Foreign Commissioner, René Massigli, was appointed "Ambassador" to London.) As Commissioner of State, Jules Jeanneney, former President of the French Senate...
...despite his new humility, Poet Auden does not lay sole blame for the blunders of contemporary thought on the artist and creative thinker. For the plain people clamor at the artist's door, promising him devotion and rich rewards if he will only distract them from the harshness of life by painting it in magic colors and assuring them that their idle dreams and nostalgia are true and good. They cry: "Carry me back, Master, to the cathedral town where the canons run through the water meadows with butterfly nets and the old women keep sweetshops in the cobbled...
Once, at Walawbum, when a Marauder unit was confronted by an overwhelming enemy force, the mules set up such a clamor that the Japs thought they must be outnumbered and withdrew...
...silence the Clamour's clamor, glossy prints are on the way to Lott...