Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current prices on each & every bushel thus sold. To the pleadings of Senator Watson that all wheat be withheld from sale, greying, strong-jawed James Clifton Stone, the Board's harassed chairman, turned a deaf ear. The Board, he said, would follow its selling policy regardless of political clamor...
...elected again in 1928. With a son at West Point, he likes to compare himself to Napoleon. But what he fears most is a Waterloo at the hands of the Mississippi Legislature. When State finances went from bad to worse last winter and voters began to clamor for legislative relief, Governor Bilbo propounded this political proposition: he would issue the necessary call for a special session, provided a majority of the legislators would first sign sworn pledges not to impeach him or any of his executive officers. His offer was loudly scorned by the law-makers who asserted that they...
...publication of the Mayor's reply, hailed by henchmen as "a complete refutation," by foes as "claiming credit for eleventh-hour reforms forced on him by public clamor," was accompanied by a happy coincidence for Mayor Walker. In the preamble to its annual report, a City Affairs Committee of the National Republican Club publicly denounced the Mayor's private life. Chairman of this committee is Alan Fox, young G. 0. P. worker who made a name for himself by locally booming Herbert Clark Hoover for the 1928 presidential nomination. As a reward, the President seriously considered making...
...guard to police the country. The murders at Logtown raised for President Hoover the acute question of whether the U. S. would now reverse its withdrawal program, go deeper into Nicaragua and avenge the outrages with more blood, or whether it would get on out. Mindful of the insistent clamor in the Senate that Nicaragua be left to the Nicaraguans, Mr. Hoover decided...
Although the general clamor against the narrowing influence of College Board Examinations on school curricula has been fully justified, some colleges have been less rigorous than is often supposed in their adherence to Board standards. In special instances Princeton has granted credit for work in non-theoretical music; through the New Plan of admission Harvard, Yale, and other universities allow considerable latitude in the choice of subjects presented for entrance...