Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese bankers have stolidly watched the Roosevelt Administration's oft-repeated promise to "do something about silver," increase the price of the metal, upon which Chinese currency is based, from about 16? to about 50? an ounce. One of the loudest cries of silver Senators in the U. S. was that raising the price of silver would also raise the purchasing power of the Far East...
Heeding finally the frantic requests of the League's Saar Commissioner Knox and his Chief of Police that a fair plebiscite in January will be absolutely impossible without additional police, the League decided to recruit its first private army. Ever since the League was founded the loudest argument of its opponents has been that it would cause the drafting of innocent young men to fight private wars for peace. Almost every League member fought shy of allowing its nationals to be called for service in the Saar...
Though Communism and Fascism are the loudest sideshows in today's Bartholomew Fair, Socialism is still doing business at the old stand. By contrast with its fiercer-breathing rivals. Socialism has come to seem a much less frightening creed than oldsters used to think it. Even conservative quidnuncs, if they can bring themselves to read Author Brailsford's 329 big pages, will see that his doctrine is less fatal, more optimistic, than the present faiths of Rome. Berlin and Moscow. A sometimes brilliant and always lucid writer, Author Brailsford has given a masterful summation of the Socialist worldview...
...strategic move to head off Inflation by the silver route. Adopted by the Senate was a resolution calling upon Secretary Morgenthau to supply a list of all big silver owners. Unlike gold, silver is not an illegal private possession but if it could be shown that the loudest silverites, in or out of Congress, were also heavy owners of the commodity for private profit, the cause of bimetallism would receive a bad moral tarring before the country...
Roman emperors liked the organ because it was the loudest wind instrument. They called it an hydraulus because air was fed into its pipes by a water contrivance. In the Seventh Century Pope Vitalian recommended an organ for churches with a view to improving the singing of congregations. The first keys were as big as the treadle of a knife-grinder's machine. Strength was the first requisite of a player, who struck at the great slabs with his fist, had the title of "organ-beater." Early in the 15th Century pedals were introduced because the bass keys were...