Word: declaim
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...repeatedly attempted to mollify strikers while really protecting employers, as some union leaders have complained. Pleas for a truce, for pacific adjustment of quarrels, generally indicate a gentle determination to maintain the status quo. Naturally, the problem is not this simple in reality, as public utility men will loudly declaim. But on the whole, the policy of the President appears to be one of favoring big business first, and groups like the National Chamber of Commerce are slowly coming to realize and confirm this fact...
...contemporary composers who has the respect of conservatives and radicals alike is Ernest Bloch, Jew by blood, Swiss by birth, American by citizenship. Everyone who knows of Bloch knows he is a Jew. His greatest works declaim the suffering of the Hebrews, their religious exaltation. Last week in Manhattan Bloch's faith and eloquence were manifested again in the U. S. premiere of his Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service), a setting for the liturgical texts used in the Hebrew temple. Composer Bloch conducted the performance, given by the 250 choristers of the New York Schola Cantorum, 80 members...
...meeting this week, together with the sessions last week, marks a milestone in the history of American business. The code authority members here were chosen by industry itself. Many will protest against tariff changes. Members of Congress from districts that have had and need protective tariffs will declaim and conscientiously object to change. The vote will show a split in the Democratic as well as the Republican parties, but Mr. Roosevelt will...
...declaim in measured tone, to weigh each gesture carefully, to poise and balance gracefully upon the stage may once have been the aims of public speaking, but they are relics of an era that considered what was said less important than how it was said. The Lee Wade and Boylston contests have been lauded for encouraging public speaking, and an interest in great orations. Public speaking certainly has its place in the modern scheme of education. But the public speaking that is merely parrot like elocution is designed only for those who will in later life be well supplied with...
...hour after President Roosevelt announced his Ambassador to Germany last week, Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, Democratic leader of the upper House and a principal Presidential spokesman at the Capitol, uprose to declaim: "The Nazi administration has startled and shocked mankind by the severe policies enforced against Jews. ... It is sickening and terrifying to realize that a great people should respond to impulses of cruelty and inhumanity which when they have spent their force will have lowered German civilization in the opinion of all people...