Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loudest groans against the agreements came from textile manufacturers in New England, farmers in Old England. Because concessions to English producers of finer cotton goods and woolens would probably hurt New England's none-too-flourishing textile industry, Governor George D. Aiken of Vermont cracked: "It looks like a plan to turn New England into a solely recreation area." On the other hand, British farmers complained because Britain, already the principal outlet for U. S. farm goods, abolished duties on U. S. wheat, corn (except flat white), lard, certain canned fruits and fruit juices, and reduced by as much...
...Loudest squawk came from Examiner Arnold, who before his ouster had been offered a $5,000 Veterans' Administration job in exchange for his $7,000 FCC post. When he refused, he said, Chairman McNinch told him that "in these days that's a pretty good salary for a Republican...
...having already visited Kansas, Texas, and Illinois, went Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to make another of a series of heartfelt speeches in defense of AAA. To Kansas went Senate Majority Leader Barkley. To Pennsylvania after Mr. Farley went House Majority Leader Rayburn. But of all the stump-speaking Democrats, loudest and longest was the Secretary of the Interior...
...scuffles continued. The Government, in efforts to convince Sudeten Nazis that their game was up, let it be known that the army, without any published mobilization order, had last week quietly completed the same full Czechoslovak mobilization as took place on May 21 - against which Orator Hitler raged his loudest at Nürnberg...
...women from the earth's six continents. They tramped across the field bearing red torches and the flags of 58 nations. The crowd of 23,000 cheered their foreign songs, their folk dances, their gymnastics, a collegiate shag performed by U. S. students. But it roared loudest when the spotlight fell on 13 delegates from Spain, jumped to its feet to chant the 'Loyalist anthem. For this was no Olympic sports festival but a pacifists' rally, the opening of the second World Youth Congress...