Word: clamorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britons a-clamor for Continental action, Lord Louis personifies the second front. They know him as the chief of their savage specialists in hit-&-run invasion, the Commandos. Actually, he has a larger and more complex job: he is Chief of Combined Operations, directing not only the Commando troops themselves but the naval and air units which share the labor, glory and death of Commando raids...
...requiring newsboys and street stands to pay a $10-a-year license fee for out-of-State papers they handled. That, thought Reilly. would put a crimp in PM's Boston circulation. By week's end, when even Hearst's own Boston Record joined the general clamor for a mayoralty veto. Reporter Reilly discovered that he had overlooked one important fact: Hearst's New York Daily Mirror has a profitable Sunday street sale in Boston...
...speech, however, brought some of that clamor into Parliament. It was made by onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, long-standing political feudist with the Prime Minister. Said...
...apologist, Sir Stafford Cripps replied in generalities, seemed tired. His speech not only failed to raise his political star, but, many felt, substantially lowered it. But while Sir Stafford, as the Government's mouthpiece, disappointed many, the leftish weekly Tribune, which Sir Stafford founded, voiced the clamor of millions of Britons...
...Anticipating this off-balance supply & demand situation, coffee prices started rising a year ago, were about to run away when Henderson slapped on a price ceiling last December. Since then coffee prices have given Leon nightmares. A tough, politically smart, internationally minded lot, the coffee boys set up a clamor for a higher ceiling. OPA boosted...