Word: clamoring
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...Congressional clamor rises, industries well beyond the pale of national defense have capitalized on the furor. Bicycle manufacturers, for example, have hoped that the President would raise their tariff protection to silence their lobby against the foreign trade bill. It would be unfortunate if the President bowed to these requests in an attempt to save his entire Foreign Trade Program. By following the Tariff Commission recommendation for boosted bicycle rates, the President would set a precedent that might reinforce his opposition. Other non-defense manufactures would cite the bicycle tariff as a basis for universally higher tariff rates...
...University offers no course in either area suitable for the non-specialist. General Education courses on the Far East, India, and the Middle East have shown that experts can successfully interpret emergent nations for the undergraduate. Soon, Guatemala and Chile, Tunisia and South Africa may drown out the clamor from these traditional noise-makers. To give students a basic knowledge of the areas and to stimulate interest in graduate research, the University should add to the upper level Social Sciences a course dealing with Africa and one with Central and South America...
...worst evils of a democratic state is public opinion. [It] must be subject to the vigilance of authority . . . Those who still clamor for so-called freedom of the press demonstrate that they are very backward people." Thus, Franco's Minister of Information Gabriel Arias Salgado explained the "philosophy" behind the proposed new press law that he was trying to have passed last week...
...seizing" Formosa and "manufacturing" a mutual-security treaty with the Nationalists there (TIME, Dec. 13). "To convict foreign spies caught in China is China's internal affair," he said coldly. "There is no justification at all for the United Nations to try to interfere. . . No amount of clamor on the part of the U.S. can shake China's just stand of exercising its own sovereign rights...
...hereby resolved," they moved, "that the House of Representatives does not trust the Yoshida Cabinet. It has continued, without definite objectives, the maladministration of the Occupation; it has indulged in secret diplomacy; it has blundered in economic policies at home. Public sentiment has become nauseated . . . and voices clamor for change." This coalition of right and left could muster a clear majority: 120 conservative "Japan Democrats" and 135 Socialists v. 185 for Premier Yoshida's conservative Liberal Party...