Word: clamoring
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...back to A. F. of L., and demanded: "Where, oh where is Dubinsky today? . . . He is crying out now and his voice laments like that of Rachel in the wilderness, against the racketeers and the panderers and the crooks in that organization. . . . And now above all the clamor comes the piercing wail and the laments of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. And they say, 'Peace, it is wonderful.' " He invited them and their president to follow Dubinsky into the fold...
...India, some 11,000 Mohammedans annually make the Haj. Last November India's Moslems sizzled when the Marquess of Linlithgow, India's Viceroy, announced that because every ship was needed for World War II, Hajis would have to wait for peace to make their pilgrimage. When the clamor continued, the Viceroy had to yield. This year Britain had learned her lesson. With the Axis driving for the Near East, British solicitude for India's Hajis seemed likely to last for the duration...
...last week wondered about Japan's $658,000 market in the rest of this hemisphere, wondered if they might have to expand to supply it. Last week U. S. clothing manufacturers, fearful that the good-neighbor policy might divert rayon, woolen & cotton textiles to Latin America, began to clamor for speedier delivery from the overworked mills...
...Canadian, the significance of the new joint-defense arrangements lies not in the fact of their having been made but in their having been accepted in Canada without raising the indignant clamor that has invariably attended any effort to improve Canadian-American relations. This is a happy augury, and gives rise to the hope that bigotry and suspicion will not again raise their ugly heads when the two nations which have so much in common may again seek to remove some of the artificial barriers between them. Canada, indeed, may well be some day the bridge that will close...
Concerning the hungry solicitors who lurk outside Mem Hall, Hooper's report says, "The solicitors tend to wax enthusiastic . . They should be firmly dealt with . . . It will generally be found necessary to threaten them with expulsion from time to time in order to restrain their clamor...