Word: clarion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Principles, the Senator from Idaho declared that he was first & foremost interested in the platform, refused to join a cabal against any candidate. To him the identity of the nominee was and always had been a matter of secondary importance. "I think," boomed he, "we should have a clarion call in our platform so that the average man in the street may not find it hard to read and know what it means...
...Fascist mobilizations" by making prior notice and police consent necessary for public assemblies. Since the Fascists can easily find private property on which to meet and a hay-wagon from which Leader de La Rocque likes to speak (see cut, p. 26), Paris' Fascist Echo de Paris could clarion last week: "The mountain has labored and brought forth a mouse- the decree laws. This formality does not present many difficulties. How is the private citizen going to be prevented from receiving in his home, in his garden or in his fields a dozen...
...India Constitution Bill (TIME, Feb. 9, 1931 et scq.). This Gargantuan measure now having been passed, ''Winnie" Churchill last week abruptly returned to the Baldwin fold, pledged ''whole hearted" support to the Government and strove to bandage his self-inflicted political wounds by the clarion announcement: "Dangers larger and nearer than Indian dangers gather on our path. . . . We have to play our part...
...Laborite party organ because the millionaire publishers Beaverbrook & Rothermere knew better than the Herald's editors what the British workingman wanted to read. Elias fixed that, had its sales up to 1,000,000 in a fortnight. He repeated the feat last year with the Socialist weekly Clarion. In two months he drove its circulation from 40,000 to nearly 250,000. So long as they show a profit, he is willing to let his publications hang on to their traditional politics, like the old-style Liberalism of John Bull, the Conservativism of The People. Publisher Elias is Britain...
Minister Hore-Belisha installed many a new traffic light, many an extra safety island for pedestrians. Then he issued a clarion call to the public...