Word: louder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first rumor to get around was that Wendell Willkie was just a super-hawker who had sold the Republican Convention a bill of goods. Last week, spreading rapidly through professional ranks was the belief that maybe Willkie was only a fatter, louder Alf Landon. When was he going to settle down and tend to his muttons-to winning an election for the Republican Party? Groaning Republicans saw Franklin Roosevelt, looking as insouciant as a gambler with a sure thing, planted before a backdrop of big guns, while Vice-Presidential Candidate Wallace anointed him the only true St. George. In Washington...
...clearer things became to him, the louder Author Mumford screamed; the louder he screamed, the more he was po litely disregarded and the more isolated he felt; the more isolated he felt, the louder he screamed. Faith for Living is his most piercing shriek to date. The book suggests that Author Mumford has been practically overrun by Nazis already and the U. S. will get its turn in a few minutes. To thwart this fate, Author Mumford urges total moral regeneration for U. S. liberals. His program embraces three main points: 1) restoration of the family; 2) re-establishment...
...massed bugles of the German and Italian propaganda band last week played louder & louder their new tune: Britain would be hard to invade, the "new tactic" of the Axis was to bomb out its arteries, starve out its defenders...
...League rushed a note to the State Department reviewing the Ried record. Three days later a "thank you" letter came back explaining that no information had yet been received as to Ried's U. S. duties. There the matter lay until last week when the Ried cries grew louder as the New York Post's Daniel Lang tracked him down, wrote an interview in which talkative Dr. Ried gladly discussed his South American success. As other papers picked up the story the nervous Anti-Nazi League, remembering that a pro-Nazi magazine (Die Neue Woche, edited by Propagandist...
...Oilman Shea knew he was moving into a trouble spot. Firecrackers had exploded under North American for nearly two years, and one of the new man's presumptive duties was to stop the noise. But the explosions did not even taper off. Last week they threatened to grow louder...