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Pestered by all this clamor, President Hoover issued a statement which many thought foreshadowed a veto. Said...
Loud was the clamor in London last week over Prime Minister MacDonald's announcement that Great Britain would not defend the Schneider Trophy this year (TIME, Jan. 26). From the Conservative and Liberal benches were fired barrages of questions, demands to know why such a decision was made at this time, after Italy & France had been drawn into the contest on Britain's own exacting terms, and when a British victory would be a third successive one, bringing permanent ownership of the trophy. Scot MacDonald professed himself "personally ... as keen about this contest as any man living...
...Amid the clamor for reduction of Great Britain's War debt to the U. S. now being raised by so many prominent persons,* Sir Robert Stevenson Home, onetime (1920-22) Chancellor of the Exchequer, placidly observed last week in London: "It has been represented that . . . this country ... is ... saddled . . . with a burden of payment under which we are groaning and struggling, and which is an important cause of the industrial depression from which we are suffering. "You would suppose that-and I find a large number of ordinarily well-informed...
Three months after the eligibility order was issued occurred the Paris flight of Charles Augustus Lindbergh which "through the wildest stretch of the imagination, could not be construed as 'part of the duties incident to' ... membership [in the Missouri National Guard or the Air Corps Reserve]." Public clamor demanded a D. F. C. for Lindbergh, and the Air Corps expediently recommended the award...
Suddenly, a shot was fired in the vicinity of the Capitol steps. There was hoarse clamor out there, contrasting rudely with the goodfellow hilarity in the House. Down the broad stone stairway leading from the Capitol gates into the street the advance-guard of a crowd of 500 Communist demonstrators was rushing pellmell. Their jeers rose into the mild, noon air. Led by a giant Negro, they had marched up the steps bearing banners legended: DOWN WITH THE ADMINISTRATION! DOWN WITH DEPORTATION ! WE DEMAND . . . JUSTICE FOR THE FOREIGN BORN...