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...advisers. Those months have seen the birth and death of the National Defense Advisory Commission, set up in May 1940 with an eye as much to keeping prices down as to getting armament up. They have seen the rise and eclipse of OPM, set up to still public clamor when NDAC did not seem to be delivering fast enough...
...news as the sinking of a convoy. It meant the loss of meat supplies from Ireland. Worse still, the same invading plague was already entrenched in Britain. In England this week there have been the worst attacks of foot-&-mouth disease in years and the public has begun to clamor against the Government's policy of slaughtering all infected beasts to prevent its spread. Reason: cattle are scarce, and the disease, though highly contagious, is rarely fatal to animals...
...would have ranked as titans in any era-fighters like Gentleman Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey. And beaten them each, not once, but twice, before retiring as undefeated champion-only to be lured back into the ring again after six years by public clamor for a "White Hope." But that needless humiliation and punishment did more than just mar Jeff's record-it broke his wife's heart. I've never known a woman as devoted to her husband as was Frieda Jeffries. The next day as the train pulled out of Reno...
Impatience with the Senate last week had finally risen to a clamor. Columnists, editorial writers, radiorators volleyed & thundered. The isolationists were cursed with bell, book and candle; Administration leaders were wigged and trimmed for their fumbling delay; cartoonists kept a brush in brine for the isolationist leader, Montana's Burton K. Wheeler...
...memories. He snarls with moral indignation when he thinks of Bret Harte's treatment of his wife, Mrs. Aldrich's treatment of her guests. He scolds about the recurrent miseries of official banquets. "It is an hour and a half of nerve-wrecking clamor, of intolerable clattering and clashing of knives and forks and plates, of shrieking and shouting commonplaces at one's elbow-mates . . . and when there is a band-and there usually is-the pandemonium is complete, and there is nothing to approach it but hell on a Sunday night." He begins to remember imagined...