Word: howling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most active member of a Government commission on Canadian business practices, he learned that these practices are those of laissez-faire. Because big Canadian firms, when Depression enabled them to slash wages, squeeze marginal producers and crush competitors, did all these things ruthlessly, Mr. Stevens raised a great howl, founded what he calls the Reconstruction Party. It offered voters their choice of mild reform measures to be carried out by the more sympathetic wing of the Old Gang...
...Manhattan, despite the fact that on arrival it had to be converted into Roosevelt Dollars, with little assurance of possible reconversion into gold and shipment back to Europe later (TIME, Oct. 7). Well might so mad a state of affairs make the Governor of the Bank of England howl, but the Chancellor of Britain's Exchequer is icy Neville Chamberlain, and last week this hook-nosed paragon of Conservatism favored the same London banquet with his stiff upper...
...influence. River Bend was a sweep of stream and a bent road over a round hill nibbled at the bottom by a quarry, all huddled under a low sky of close-flapping clouds. On Manhattan's 57th Street it would have delighted dilettantes. But Iowa "Conservatives" sent up a howl because the river was grey and did not look enough like water. Judge Tellander also gave a prize to a Country Gas Station by Harry D. Jones of Des Moines, which showed pumps leaning crazily on a steep hill. Secretary Alice McKee Gumming of the Iowa Art Guild damned this...
...corner exempted. Ten years later, however, the County bought for a State building the property behind the Times, ordered the Times to move out. In 1930 the Times agreed to do so if paid $1,846,000 for its land, 18-year-old building and machinery. A great political howl rose, followed by condemnation proceedings which awarded Mr. Chandler $1,021,345 for his building and ground, nothing for the presses he wanted to leave behind. Then the State Supreme Court upheld Mr. Chandler in his demand that he be paid for his equipment. Meantime, Mr. Chandler had started...
University of Oregon set up an outraged howl, one president of the Board of Higher Education was ousted and another resigned, citizens petitioned and balloted, "Dads'" and "Mothers' " clubs passed resolutions, politicians maneuvered, the Press raged and Chancellor Kerr resigned but did not depart. Finally a scathing report by an American Association of University Professors committee last month (TIME, June 10) made it necessary to do something. But by that time it looked as if no sensible U. S. educator could be persuaded to risk his shins, even for $10,000 per year...