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...before bargain hunters could decide whether to wait for lower prices, one big question had to be answered. Would the President proclaim a National Emergency, approve of SEC's closing the Exchanges? Clamor for such a step grew noisier. The Wall Street Journal chided the clamorers, editorialized: "The Securities and Exchange Commission and the authorities of the New York Stock Exchange are to be congratulated upon their refusal to interfere. . . . The wisdom of this policy is demonstrated by the fact that there has been an actual market throughout the entire decline, with no more than one or two cases...
...admirals. Massachusetts' well-informed young Senator Lodge set the Senate by the ears with a resolution providing what many a temperate critic has long demanded, what many another within the services has secretly advocated: a full, impartial investigation of U. S. defense needs, method, purpose. Congressmen sensitive to clamor from home had up a batch of admirals (Robinson, Furlong, Van Keuren), gave the wallowing sea dogs hell. So hot was the attack that Minnesota's Melvin Maas was at last moved to say: "When peace times are here we jump all over you and accuse you of just...
Next day the City Council increased the clamor, voted 16-to-5 that Earl Russell's appointment should be rescinded. Cried Councilman Charles E. Keegan of The Bronx: "Any Councilman who reads his mail knows that the great majority of the taxpayers of this city do not want this alien coming in here with his moral code and getting paid from the city treasury. We should step in now and destroy the plot which began three years ago, when the Board of Higher Education set its cap for this man of doubtful moral character...
...Louisiana had the highest auto license tax in the U. S. (Sam Jones promise: a flat $3 tax), had 27 new taxes, including a general 1% sales tax that filled Louisiana pockets with brass and aluminum tokens, one of the highest gasoline taxes in the country. General was the clamor for a clean-up of the judicial system. Said Sam Jones: 1) dictatorial laws must be abolished; 2) courts must be placed above reproach; 3) Louisiana schools must be revitalized. "Louisiana has gone back into the hands of the people. . . . A new day has dawned on this State after...
...British First Lord of the Sea Bottom. Before he had talked for long, listeners got the idea. Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft was up to a slick trick in the European radio war of harsh words. As Mr. Churchill's voice purred on, it was suddenly interrupted by a tremendous clamor of sound-effect boos & catcalls. Then the Nazi announcer spoke up. "This," he explained, "is the record of how Mr. Churchill's recent speech at Manchester was received by his audience...