Word: hue
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner had this been done than a deafening hue & cry arose in nearly every court in the State. The constitutionality of the enabling legislation was challenged. Commissioner Van Schaick's rehabilitation plans were attacked at every step. "Protective committees" mushroomed on every side, tried to oust Commissioner Van Schaick in favor of Federal bankruptcy trustees. Individual investors demanded the property underlying defaulted mortgages. The mortgage business in New York threatened to become a lawyer's holiday...
...economic growth and amassing of wealth. Naturally this became the American ideal, most blatantly expressed by the American Magazine (properly named, indeed.) The movies early responded to this and provided the delectable pleasures of Park Avenue, the European resorts, and all that goes with them under a rosy hue. It was all represented as a glorious Paradise right here on earth...
...Minnesota, the group's spokesman, with a sporty blue shirt, blue tie, grey suit and slicked-back hair, led them in to see the President. His jaunty step belied the deep concern he felt. South Dakota's Tom Berry, a broad-brimmed plush hat of sandy hue above his leathery face, took the steps in a rolling cowboy gait. The one who looked like a church deacon, Clyde Herring of Iowa, marched along sedately. Wrinkled Albert George Schmedeman, who had been debating with himself all day whether or not to proclaim martial law in Wisconsin, looked troubled...
...Such losses for tax purposes were legal but in the hue & cry last week retiring U. S. Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell (no kin) promptly launched a probe into this and other Mitchellisms...
Thus far the American's color work is limited to one hue on a single page. It is made possible by the fact that the American is printed on the same presses as the Journal, which formerly carried an extra color on its front page for late news...