Word: clamorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This popular clamor to keep Congress in session came to the ears of Franklin Roosevelt and his lieutenants as a rude surprise...
...Ingalls will have to build many more ships to make good its boast that its new methods will revolutionize U. S. shipbuilding. In contrast with the machine-gun clamor of most shipyards, Pascagoula's noises are a sibilant hiss. Biggest plug for welding is the fact that one welder can do the job of a four-man riveting team-a big saving in labor (40% of shipyard cost). Ingalls welds complete stern assemblies, bow sections, etc. up to 75 tons on platforms in the yard, swings them into place with big gantry cranes. It reverses old-line shipbuilding techniques...
...before bargain hunters could decide whether to wait for lower prices, one big question had to be answered. Would the President proclaim a National Emergency, approve of SEC's closing the Exchanges? Clamor for such a step grew noisier. The Wall Street Journal chided the clamorers, editorialized: "The Securities and Exchange Commission and the authorities of the New York Stock Exchange are to be congratulated upon their refusal to interfere. . . . The wisdom of this policy is demonstrated by the fact that there has been an actual market throughout the entire decline, with no more than one or two cases...
...admirals. Massachusetts' well-informed young Senator Lodge set the Senate by the ears with a resolution providing what many a temperate critic has long demanded, what many another within the services has secretly advocated: a full, impartial investigation of U. S. defense needs, method, purpose. Congressmen sensitive to clamor from home had up a batch of admirals (Robinson, Furlong, Van Keuren), gave the wallowing sea dogs hell. So hot was the attack that Minnesota's Melvin Maas was at last moved to say: "When peace times are here we jump all over you and accuse you of just...
Next day the City Council increased the clamor, voted 16-to-5 that Earl Russell's appointment should be rescinded. Cried Councilman Charles E. Keegan of The Bronx: "Any Councilman who reads his mail knows that the great majority of the taxpayers of this city do not want this alien coming in here with his moral code and getting paid from the city treasury. We should step in now and destroy the plot which began three years ago, when the Board of Higher Education set its cap for this man of doubtful moral character...