Word: clamoring
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...spirit. Though he is modest about the book's merits, it earned him a Pulitzer Prize for History at the age of twentyeight. Much of the book was written, a friend claims, with "one twin on each knee." Schlesinger still continues to do much of his work amid the clamor of his children, now increased to four...
...week's end, after prolonged conferences with Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft. Benson, the President reached a decision. In Augusta, Ga., miles away from the clamor of Washington, he decided to let principle not politics be his guide. As he headed home for Washington. Dwight Eisenhower made up his mind to veto the farm bill. This week...
...obstacle to development, the C.E.D. reported, is shortage of capital. To encourage U.S. private investment, C.E.D. joined the clamor for lower corporate taxes on overseas earnings of U.S. firms (a proposal that the Eisenhower Administration has already urged on Congress). Since Government aid would still be necessary, C.E.D. endorsed the principle of loans rather than outright grants, "devoted mainly to the creation of basic economic facilities such astransportation and development of water resources." Such economic help, along with technical assistance, said the report, "is now one of the main channels through which the West can keep in contact with...
...Supreme Court's segregation decision of May 17, 1954 flared to life in rioting, threats and clamor through the South (see EDUCATION), the whole civil rights issue was ticking like a time bomb in the center of the Democratic Party. Last week it exploded...
Despite the political clamor for his resignation, Benson was still up to his old determination to tell people what he thought they should hear, whether they wanted to hear it or not. At a meeting of the National Swine Industry Committee in Chicago, he read a lecture to the processors and distributors of meat products. Said he: "I have been extremely concerned in recent months that prices to farmers were going down while marketing margins were going up. In other words, low hog prices were not fully reflected in pork values to the consumer ... I am fully aware that total...