Word: echo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice President Charles Curtis took the stump for some of the speech-making he is not allowed while presiding over the Senate. Opening Delaware's Republican campaign at Wilmington last week, the Vice President warmly championed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act in an address which was a composite echo of all the Republican tariff speeches he had been forced to listen to during the nine months this measure was before the Senate. High point excerpt...
Last week Brazil had her own International Beauty Contest. In a field of beauties from France, Germany, Turkey, etc. etc. the 1930 Miss Brazil, Srta Yolanda Pereira won hands down, was formally crowned Miss Universe, handed a check for $10,000, and cheered to the echo. Brazil's mother country, Portugal, won second prize, Greece third. Completely disregarded was a blonde known as Miss United States...
Hero Cerro. Once in -jail, Augusto Leguia was quickly forgotten by the Peruvian man-in-the-street. Hero of the week, cheered to the echo on his every appearance was the President of the Junta, Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro, in many ways an even more spectacular figure than deposed Dictator Leguia. If five-foot-three Dictator Leguia is a bantam, pugnacious Colonel Cerro, five-foot-flat, is a molecule of a man, an explosive molecule. Brown as a berry, he has been fighting all his life. He is scarred with 16 gunshot wounds. In 1914 leading a revolution against...
...perambulator, was really a sly and wicked midget. It was unpleasant to imagine the shrill, false pipe in which such a monstrosity might have whispered to his cronies. As a talkie, The Unholy Three is less hair-raising because its sounds have become explicit. Lon Chancy still impersonates Professor Echo, a ventriloquist in a carnival who, when he turns thief, capitalizes his talents to make dumb parrots talk, to visit complaining purchasers in the guise of a muddled old lady while making notes for robbery. Later, when his associates have committed a murder, Echo takes the witness stand...
Drys throughout the land last week were on the alert for any change of policy incident to the transfer. They thought they detected a suggestion of some such shift in a statement by Attorney General Mitchell which seemed to echo the recommendations of George Woodward Wickersham, Chairman of the National Law Enforcement Commission, for a more marked division of enforcement responsibility between the states and the U. S. Said Mr. Mitchell...