Word: clamoring
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...fate of Rome haunts a modern world that has been unable to solve its own social problems, either domestic or international, and Durant makes the most of hundreds of parallels. Rome, like the U.S.A., discovered the secret of check-&-balance republican government, yet forgot its secret when the clamor of pressure groups broke down the old tradition of limited terms of office. A Cincinnatus, called from his plow to save the State, returned to his farm as soon as the crisis was over. But when Sulla and Julius Caesar violated the precedent, the Republic sank back into the monarchy from...
Although the carriers are baby flattops (CVEs) and not big, slick beauties of the Essex class, the Navy's announcement quieted the Marine air arm's long clamor for a share in carrier-based flying. Before the war a few Marine outfits had been carrier-based, but by Pearl Harbor they were all flying from land airdromes; and that was where the Navy left them...
...Washington's Navy Building, the marines' clamor for carriers grew. The chorus leader: stubby, black-browed Major General Louis E. Woods, director of aviation. His best refrain: Marine airmen were better qualified to blast the way for their shipmates than flyers of any other service...
Free for All. After many bruising tries, Stuart learned that he could not upset the established relationships between blue-chip companies and their regular bankers just by personal solicitation. The individualistic Stuart, determined to make LaSalle Street the equal of Wall Street, then began his clamor for competitive bidding-he wanted the securities business from which he was excluded thrown open to all comers. After eight years of Stuart drumfire, in 1941 the SEC decreed competitive bidding for utility holding company securities; and last May the ICC ordered competitive bidding for railroad bonds...
...quiet the clamor of the resistance movement for a bigger administrative role, De Gaulle reshuffled his Government twice within a fortnight. Most important changes: as Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Georges Bidault, president of the National Council of Resistance. (The former Foreign Commissioner, René Massigli, was appointed "Ambassador" to London.) As Commissioner of State, Jules Jeanneney, former President of the French Senate...