Word: clamorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio, in the press, in Congress, in Parliament there was the same shrill, urgent clamor. Along the "invasion coast" the Nazis maneuvered, bolstered their elaborate defenses, reportedly rushed some 3,000,000 Europeans away from possible areas of attack and tucked them away in concentration camps in Germany. Over the Continent was the electric tension that precedes a storm...
...steel plant to supply his brand-new amateur shipyards. Now he was out after bigger stakes. He had broached direct to the public his bold proposal to build 5,000 giant cargo planes (TIME, July 27). Now he descended on Washington with the avowed intention of creating public clamor for his breath-taking scheme...
...national clamor [Gallup poll: 49%] for a united high command of the Army & Navy, had been answered by the Presidential appointment of a "generalissimo" whose job Mr. Roosevelt now defined as that of a mere "legman...
...Downing Street. Ex-President Eduard Benes of ex-Czecho-Slovakia urged an immediate second front in the hope of obtaining peace "within a year." Ex-War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha demanded either a second front or continuous British bombing raids. But the most powerful new voice added to the clamor was that of tough Jack Tanner, president of the 600,000-member Amalgamated Engineering Union. Said...
...Japanese might have been happier had he heard the ominous prediction of Congressman John M. Coffee that "there will be an attack on the Alaskan mainland, British Columbia or the Pacific Northwest before the end of summer." By week's end public clamor and military silence had grown so great that the Senate Military Affairs Committee decided to send out its own scouting party, headed by Senator Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, to find out what was really happening in unhappy Alaska...