Word: clamored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...they could demand a new issue of legal tender, or resort to some form of wild-cat banking, or, what is more probable, they would resort to some form of silver inflation. Twenty-five per cent, of the currency would be called into the treasury and burned, and the clamor for silver will be increased to that extent. Since the silver dollar actually possesses some intrinsic value, it furnishes a much more insidious temptation to inflation than do the legal tender. This fact it proved conclusively by recent events; for, although the demand for paper inflation has died out, only...
...amount even then would be uncertain. A better source of aid was open - the internal revenue taxes. Here was a source of revenue, three times that estimated for this law. easily and economically collected, without popular friction or disturbance to trade. Why did Congress neglect it? Because popular clamor dinned its claims in one ear, while Congress turned the other to the gentle suggestions of the beer combine. The law is unjustifiable because of its radical defects. The special deductions allowed open wide the doors of evasion, and this and the high rate of exemption will largely destroy its value...
...action in sending her team into the country the week before the Princeton game, the coaches decided that it would be an advantage to get the men away from all the football talk and gossip of Cambridge, and help them to escape the numerous friends and acquaintances who clamor for news of the team's progress. Lee's Woodland Park Hotel at Auburndale was selected as the place and here the men will spend their nights up to the time of the Yale game. As they will all be under one roof the work of talking over plays and discussing...
...sacrificed a vacation at some other period of the year to assist in the fall work. Thus the coaches answer an excellent purpose in taking from the players the too fascinating and engrossing study of tactics. The reason that college authorities are so little moved by the clamor against athletics is that they know from the results of their previous and continuing investigations that the good far overbalances the evil, and that no better example could be placed before the college of the value of sustained self-control...
...Government ownership of telegraph lines is bad, since (1) Presumption is against centralization of private interests in the hands of the government. (2) All the people would be taxed for the benefit of the comparatively small number that would use the telegraph. (a) Probable inefficiency of government management. (b) Clamor for extension of lines to an unprofitable extent. (3) It creates a vast number of federal offices, resulting in an extension of the "Spoils System." (4) It exposes political secrets to the use of the party in power...