Word: clamoring
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...symptom of any prevalent European infirmity; it is simply the last vestige of prolonged convalescence. Sterling exchange was well able to stand the strain of the recent general strike and there has been a steady gratifying recovery of Scandinavian, Dutch, Japanese and other important exchanges, despite the loud clamor for "managed currencies" and other fiscal "quackery."-Dr. Julius Klein, Director of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign Commerce...
...knows the clamor, satisfied it a trifle in 1917 by giving 16¾% dividends. That and the 16% of 1918 are the farthest he has ever deviated from his institutionalized...
...hard Drys in both Sweden and Norway continue to clamor for prohibition à l'Americaine...
Then suddenly last week a clamor went up from the Drys for General Andrews' removal. Why? What had he done, left undone? How had he sinned against the spirit of the Drys? This is what happened: The General was called back again before the committee to amplify certain complicated figures which he had previously presented. All went well with him until Senator Reed, mighty Missourian, began to quiz him in tones now jocular, now earnest. The Senator tried to get him to admit that some of the "light wine and beer bills" would, if passed, solve the enforcement question...
...interest and the buzzing and the clamor some Eastern lyceum bureau offered Mr. Burbank $120,000 for a year's lecturing about his agnostic [sic] views on religion. He almost snarled at the insulting proffer, "I am not in this for the money...