Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loudest protest of all was fired off in London by Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan's Ambassador. He was instructed to say that "in case vital interests of Japan should be affected . . . Japan would be compelled to take appropriate counter-measures." This was tough talk from a country whose fondness for Germany is supposed to have been cooled by the Hitler-Stalin Deal. But Japan, threatened by an embargo of U. S. exports to her at the next session of the U. S. Congress, faced a tough spot...
From England, where denunciation had been loudest, now came a "defense" more destructive than any attack so far. Wrote Author Harold Nicolson, in whose "Long Barn" estate at the foot of the Kentish weald Lindbergh stayed during his English exile: "He emerged from that ordeal (the 1932 kidnap-murder of his son) with a loathing for publicity that was almost pathological. He identified the outrage to his private life first with the popular press and then . . . with freedom of speech and then, almost, with freedom. He began to loathe democracy, . . . His self-confidence thickened into arrogance and his convictions hardened...
...line was a natural. From a TWA connection at St. Louis it ran to Cincinnati, crossed TWA again at Dayton, and continued north to Toledo and Detroit. But until CAA gave it a certificate of convenience and necessity it was not an airline entity, had no sales value. Loudest to shout against a certificate for Marquette was naturally Jack Frye's TWA which wanted no newcomer in the field it hoped eventually to develop. When it was granted TWA lost no time in demanding a rehearing from...
Germany is the loudest, longest-winded propagandist on the Fourth Front, carrying out the Hitler-inspired rule: "Make it simple, tell them often, make it burn." London is next, then Paris. U. S. S. R.'s mighty Radio Moscow is hard to hear...
...tower, 16 well-muscled men and one well-muscled woman shivered in a northwest gale and listened. They did not have to prick up their ears. The din was deafening enough to split eardrums less inured. Around them boomed the 72 bells of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon, loudest and biggest in the U. S. The biggest of these bells weighed as much as a good-sized army tank, the loudest of them could be heard in the neighboring State of New Jersey. But to the 17 listeners this tintinnabulation was a concord of sweet sound. For they were...