Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wilhelm III? Newsorgans controlled by Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, "Hearst of Germany" rumored that on President von Hindenburg's 85th birthday next October he will resign and place Germany in the hands of former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm as Regent. At once Munich papers began to clamor for restoration of the Kingdom of Bavaria with former Crown Prince Rupprecht on the Throne. In Berlin last week was Viscount Rothermere, "Hearst of England." Flatly he asserted, "Germans have learned from their economic distress that monarchy is good for business." He prophesied the "rescue of the Reich" with a Hohenzollern on the Throne...
...connection with the sale of Washington seals has already occurred, a project was on foot to erect a replica of Mount Vernon in Bryant Park. When the Metropolitan Museum of Art removed from its walls to the basement Emanuel Leutze's painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware, popular clamor compelled it to lug the massive picture up again for temporary hanging in its American Wing...
...worst of the bequest situation. With the Library sorely in need of funds which are capable of general application, there are still those who insist on giving it money for specific purposes. This results in certain branches of the Library being literally over-endowed, while the students continue to clamor for more books to be used in reading periods...
Because the 72110! Congress was slow getting up steam and into motion, an ignorant public clamor arose against its apparent do-nothingness. But late last week, after ten days' tinkering and amid considerable clanking and sputtering it got its unwieldly bulk really rolling...
...which for 28 months it had guarded the details of the Board's wheat and cotton stabilization operations. Curious Senators poked roughly into facts and figures which Farm Boarders had long feared would damage their agency's economic prestige. What was disclosed served to intensify the industrial clamor for the Board to be abolished as a futile waster of public funds. Lobbyists for farm organizations were no less loud in using the same disclosures to argue for its wholesale revamping...