Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accommodate the transient (divorce-seeking) trade. Discreet enough to be considered proper for the University of Nevada's young people, these places bear such idyllic names as "The Willows" and "Idlewild,'' though at a place called Lawton's Springs there is sometimes heard an echo of "the West that...
...American Medical Convention, he cried: "This is no longer republican government. It is tyranny. In the long run we English-speaking people will not endure tyranny." His general denunciation of sumptuary legislation was, of course, received as a specific condemnation of Prohibition.* It reverberated throughout the land. The loudest echo came from Clarence True Wilson, 57, Ph. B., LL. D., general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, who chanced to be in Portland at the moment.f Dr. Wilson declared that President Thayer had "railroaded" himself into office. He said: "I was in Washington looking...
...Ford thought about auto tariffs. Asked why Henry Ford had not appeared, Mr. Roberge suprisingly replied that Henry Ford had received no invitation. After these qualifications, Mr. Roberge announced that Edsel Ford was willing to have automobiles on the free list. It was noticed that Mr. Roberge did not echo Mr. Sloan's statement about not importing foreign-made cars...
...defense of his super-efficient policemen, "that bystanders were injured, but we must consider the viewpoint of the decent laborers who were not in the least connected with the uprising, and had the right to demand that the fire of insurrection be quenched as soon as possible." Another echo of Berlin's Bloody May Day was the reappearance in the news of Grigori Evseevich Zinoviev, famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," onetime Director of the Third International, imputed author of the defamed Zinoviev letters (later proved forgeries) which caused the downfall of Ramsay MacDonald's British Labor Government (TIME...
...Cove sits remotely on a plateau in Nolichuckey Valley, Scott County, Va. Around it and its 100-odd residents, roll and billow the Cumberland Mountains. Locomotive whistles echo from five miles away. Until last week, the seven-room schoolhouse of Rye Cove, set in an open field near the valley head, drew 200 pupils from ten mountainous miles around. Life there was simple, sheltered, unharried by the outer world...