Word: clamoring
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...minutes one day last week, U. S. cotton exchanges hushed their clamor. In England, India and Egypt, brokers awaited news by cable from the nation which grows more than half the world's cotton. Then at the stroke of noon Washington flashed out its best judgment on the 1934 cotton crop: drought in the rich bottom lands west of the Mississippi River had combined with AAA acreage reduction to bring the crop down to 9,195,000 bales-25% below last year, and the lowest, with one exception, in 38 years.* This was more than 1,000,000 bales...
There is a poetic tradition that he who opens a gold casket "shall gain what many men desire." Last January President Roosevelt sent Congress a gold casket. When it was opened it contained a brand new vest-pocket-size dollar, desired by many inflationists. Silverites soon began to clamor for a second precious casket from the White House. For a long time the President demurred. Last week to keep the peace he sent a silver casket to the Capitol. When Congressmen lifted the lid, they found its contents to be: three sops, a new tax, and some consoling generalities. There...
...self-respect and full nationhood. If another world catastrophe is to be avoided, she must be accepted among her fellow states as an equal. Proud and idealistic the Teuton race will not suffer much longer the injustice that has been inflicted upon it by arrogant nations. Everywhere they clamor for peace but nowhere are any adequate steps taken to assure that war will not be waged...
...Judge Akerman, "the [AAA] act is so full of holes you could drive eight yoke of oxen through it. I would be more than happy if I could avoid deciding the questions presented in this case, but if I did I would be a coward. I cannot allow public clamor to deter my ruling as I see the matter...
...clamor sent up by anti-inflationists last week (see p. 12), the President answered in a radio address occasioned by Maryland's tercentenary. Tolerantly he observed: "It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us. but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with...