Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty minutes were devoted to the loudest and most frenzied cheering the Dictator has ever received in the Chamber. When the Corporative State law was proposed, the whole Chamber leaped up to adopt it by acclaim. Il Duce stilled the pandemonium, insisted on a vote, cast the first ballot himself. The count, presumably unanimous, was not mentioned in dispatches...
...became unhooked in the back. De Soto put on a marionet shew, depicting the history of transportation since the birth of Hernando De Soto, Spanish explorer. Hudson's Terraplane offered spectators playlets including one involving an ingenue, her weary mother, a Terraplane salesman and a policeman with the loudest voice at the Show. Two girls on a turntable spent their hours and days climbing in & out of a Chrysler. Packard boasted the "Queen of a Century of Progress," who would on request weigh your signature. A couple in evening dress against a backdrop of swank estates set the stage...
...rationalized, selective tariff-walking and talking in & out of the White House. California's white-crested Johnson, who Bull-Moosed with another Roosevelt, found the New Deal sufficiently "progressive" to go out and stump for it in 1932. Louisiana's rowdy Long is, of course, merely the loudest noise on the Left, going further than any one as is his wont. He wants, for example, a capital levy...
Blandly he admitted what foes of Government-in-the-power-business have been moaning loudest about: "It is perfectly evident that we now have . . . a tremendous surplus supply of electricity, . . . A fair estimate is that 25% of the investment in power houses and transmission lines is idle and is piling up fixed charges. . . ." He further recognized that the nation's power surplusage would soon be increased by Federal and State power projects at Muscle Shoals, Cove Creek, Boulder Dam, Bonneville Dam (Ore.), Grand Coulee Dam (Wash...
Arose the loudest hubbub in years at a meeting presided over by Il Duce. Every member of the Council seemed to have his own notion of how to proceed. Il Duce encouraged all to spout their ideas, only ringing his bell when the clamor grew too great. ''This meeting," said one of the Dictator's aides, "is the first of a series at which will be worked out the final economic organization of the Corporative State...