Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, there was increased clamor for a special session of Congress to consider more aid to Europe (see Foreign Relations). Harry Truman, still at sea, let it be known that he was not yet in favor of a special session. After all, it might be a perilous move. Unless the session were assured of success, it might be better not to call it. Not to hold it might be even more dangerous...
...Every trace of bitterness, anger, clamor, malice, idolatry, deceit, apathy in man's character is sufficient manifestation of a live devil for most discerning Protestants...
...Republicans had begun the session by refusing to seat Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, Mississippi's evangelist of racial discrimination. In passing and then re-passing the Taft-Hartley labor bill over the President's veto, Republicans and Democrats both (but mainly Republicans) had ignored the clamor from labor and also from the extreme right. The 80th had re-established the sovereignty of the legislative process...
...Book Club; Hughes is now a TIME correspondent in Rome. He spent four wartime years as press attaché of the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. He thinks that economic sanctions by the Western powers, and not "international sermons," will bring Franco's downfall. The Communists throughout the world clamor for an economic embargo against Spain; Author Hughes does not believe them. His opinion is that the Kremlin wants the democracies to leave Franco in power only until the day comes when the Spanish people rise under Communist leadership (not now predominant in the underground) and engulf Army, Church, Falange...
...swinging, into the Buenos Aires crowds which had turned a mass celebration of the liberation of Paris into a tumultuous demonstration against Perón's pro-Nazi military regime. A year later, police and nationalists had sprung Juan Perón back to power after spontaneous democratic clamor forced him into a brief, one-day exile...