Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week that Labor's irate, pacifist London Daily Herald was able to cite 13 leading issues which have risen an average of 207% since His Majesty's Government started the boom with their $1,500,000,000 program of new armaments (TIME, Nov. 11). Urged to dampen this speculative rise by promising that His Majesty's Government will by law curtail armorers' profits, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin said: "Great as the power of government is, I am afraid we can't control the speculator, and it would do no good to give him advice...
...neutrality legislation should be brought to a vote. Not for a moment did anyone believe they were bluffing. Only Missouri's Clark, A. E. F. colonel and a founder of the American Legion, knew anything about war at first hand but his colleagues did not let their ignorance dampen their zeal. Senator Bone led off with a two-and-a-half hour harangue...
...lack of records could dampen the excitement of the last of the six events, the mile race contested by four young men from both sides of the world who have been individually chasing each other to fabulous marks for the past three years but who had never before met collectively. In the eight times that Princeton's Bonthron, Glenn Cunningham of Kansas and Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania have raced together, Cunningham has come home in front five times, Bonthron thrice. Bon-thron meantime has had a separate series with John Edward Lovelock, the little New Zealand medical student with...
Blustering Huey Long is on the front page again. Apparently such events as the washroom black eye will not dampen an unquenchable thirst to be before the public eye. Now the Senator from Louisiana bombastically attacks General Johnson for the benefit of Randolph Hearst's news hawks, and much to the delight of the Reverend Father Coughlin...
Slushy streets and drizzling cold did not dampen the spirits of President Roosevelt when he attended the Fly Club Dinner Saturday evening. About 1500 people caught a glimpse of the Executive on his trip to and from the Beacon Park Yards of the Boston and Albany Railroad...