Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Business Page was an inconspicuous feature of the U. S. Press until the middle 1920's, when public interest in the stockmarket made editors clamor for Wall Street news. United Press did not even furnish stockmarket quotations when Elmer Conrad Walzer, after a few years of teaching and a turn at reporting, became UP's financial editor in 1926. As editors expanded their business section, UP geared itself to fill more space, hired specialists, furnished columnists, commentators and quotations...
...minority of Harvard Students were voting with nine out of every ten of their fellow citizens. Let us hope the clamor of the newly self conscious aged can be put off indefinitely and yielded to so gradually, that the eventual effect won't be chaos, and then the Happening Here...
From Washington Senior Surgeon James Payton Leake of the U. S. Public Health Service raised a loud clamor against the infantile paralysis vaccines developed in Manhattan by Drs. William Hallock Park & Maurice Brodie, in Philadelphia by Dr. John Kolmer (TIME, July 16, 1934 et seq.). Twelve children who received one or the other of the vaccines last summer rapidly contracted the disease. Of the twelve, six died. Said Dr. Leake: "I feel that the fact we found fatalities makes it advisable that we warn the public and physicians...
...Hearst's tax blast were cordial invitations from Mayor Charles D. White of Atlantic City, President William A. Eastman of the Seattle Real Estate Board, Governor Dave Sholtz of Florida,* to come and live in their in-come-tax-free communities. Second result was an indignant clamor from Californians of high & low degree against Mr. Hearst s publicizing their income tax. State Assemblyman Ford A. Chatters, author of the new law, claimed that the State's Community Property Law would enable a man to split his taxable income with his wife and thus avoid high brackets, so that...
...Neither boys nor masters enter the infirmary without a faint feeling of shame. Endicott Peabody at Cambridge was a great oarsman, and exercise at Groton is "almost a sacrament." The Rector permits tennis and golf but he encourages the rough team sports. Until rivals raised too loud a clamor, he and many masters played on the school teams...