Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Fort, Chairman of the new Federal Home Loan Board, went the loudest ovation when he announced that national bank receivers had been ordered not to foreclose any more mortgages for 60 days until his relief organization could swing into action.* Later 20 State banking departments pledged themselves to carry out the same plan locally...
Goebbels. Offsetting the ousting of Gumbel, the Hitlerites had their quickest wit, their loudest mouth closed up for a week. By government order Der Angriff, Nazi organ, was suppressed for "inciting to disobedience and resistance against the State." Editor of Der Angriff is Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, a gnomelike little man with a tart tongue and a club foot, who appeared from nowhere about two years ago, rapidly rose to be Fascist deputy, editor of the party organ and one of the right-hand men of Adolf Hitler. Herr Hitler attended Dr. Goebbels' wedding last winter. Fortnight ago when...
...Papen, sleekly groomed for the occasion, made his first formal address as Chancellor to the equally sleek Agricultural Council, central body of German Junkers (landed aristocrats). Mindful of the warning from South Germany, he pledged his Cabinet to "adhere to the framework of the [Republican] Constitution," but he raised loudest hochs by exclaiming: "The unprecedented spiritual and material situation of the German people requires liberation from the chains of party politics and unification of all forces for the rebirth of Germany...
...Hollister, Calif., Jim Dale, 58, poultry-raiser of Petaluma, exhibited seven women to 5,000 wedding guests. They clapped loudest for Mrs. Emma Johnson, a 52-year-old San Jose widow, so he married her. Best man was California's Governor James Rolph Jr. The six losers were bridesmaids...
...success in extorting a confession from Kahahawai just before, with a revolver in his hand, his mind went blank. Pretty young Thalia Fortescue Massie had dramatically corroborated her husband's tale. Alienists had sworn that Lieut. Massie was insane at the time; others, that he was not. What rang loudest in the jury's ears, though, were the last things they had heard, the lawyers' summations...