Word: exclaims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pine of the racing fisherman Gertrude L. Thebaud. Their last meeting was in Washington whither "Cap'n" Pine had sailed the Thebaud to ask for a higher tariff on fish (TIME, May I). The President was given an oil painting of the Thebaud which moved him to exclaim: "I think the painting is particularly lovely and I'll hang it in my study in the White House. (Gesturing toward the Thebaud) Isn't she a grand vessel! Look at her lines. Cap'n Pine, you should be proud to own her." But when a few minutes...
...Herty had a speaking appointment at Niagara Falls before a section of the American Chemical Society. There he sped to exclaim: "Perhaps the most sensational fact about this new product is its strength and light weight. It has a burst strength of 10 to 12 lb. per sq. in., compared with only 6 to 10 lb. for the standard newsprint. It is a 30-lb. paper, while the standard is 32. This means that newspapers, if able to buy it, would receive 6.66% more sheets per ton and their mailing costs by weight would be 6.66% less...
...Mills the Treasury has been a cold storage plant. . . . The new secretary has been at ease, quite natural and simple, utterly free of official pomp and pose and has made a tremendous hit with everybody." Well aware of how the country was taking him, Secretary Woodin was moved to exclaim: "I'm stunned in admiration at the co-operation of the people. . . . We see light. This thing is not going to pieces...
...testified that 20 billions in securities had been floated in ten years, of which something under one billion have been in "difficulties." Banker Mitchell's salary is $35,000 a year. In 1927-29 he made nearly $3,500,000 extra, fact which led rich Senator Couzens to exclaim that "unreasonable salaries and bonuses led to unsound banking and unsound securities sales...
...Received from Utah's Smoot. as the result of a dare by Maryland's Tydings, a bill limiting compensation to veterans disabled in line of military duty. C Heard Michigan's wealthy Couzens exclaim: "This talk of 'no money' is silly. Look at the millions and millions that are used looking after bugs, insects and pigs. We spend money for reforestation that will be of no benefit for 40 or 50 years. We appropriate for migratory birds-my God, migratory birds!-and yet we say there is not enough money for human relief...