Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comeback-without one of his earlier singing stars, Perry Como. Last week Weems & his band opened in a famous jive spot, the College Inn of Chicago's Hotel Sherman, the oldest nightclub in the U.S., where Jazzmen Benny Goodman, Woody Herman and Gene Krupa made some of their loudest noises, and biggest successes...
...standards, he had been ruthless; this was a tight budget. (The Army & Navy had at first wanted $22 billion, formally requested $15.6 billion, lost a quarter of that under Truman's surgery.) But it was not tight enough for many Congressmen of both parties.. The loudest outcry was over the fact that Truman wanted to go right on collecting taxes at present rates. Republicans were determined to cut them. But first they had to cut the budget. Ohio's Robert Taft thought between $3 and billion could be squeezed out, without touching Army & Navy. Ambitious Harold Stassen...
...been offered to an Englishman who has never worked for a newspaper. John Duncan Miller, 44-year-old Cambridge man, onetime book publisher and architect, was a wartime colonel, now works in Chicago for the British Information Service. His tough assignment: to explain Britain to a Midwest whose loudest citizen-Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Anglophobic Chicago Tribune-doesn't want to listen. Miller was offered the new job not on the strength of his only published writing, a book of Clerihews,* but because he is a friendly fellow with a considerable awareness of Anglo-American viewpoints...
...hoped, with a smile, "that the Congress will cooperate in this program of economy." He said that the nation's agricultural objective should be "a balanced pattern of peacetime production without either undue sacrifice by farm people or undue expense to the Government." He got some of his loudest applause of the day when he called for the maintenance of adequate defense, reminding Congress that he still wanted merger and universal military training...
Naturally enough, the loudest hurrahs came from the Republicans. In New York, as everyone had predicted, it was Tom Dewey by a mile; in Pennsylvania it was James Duff who rode in on the Martin ticket; in Connecticut, James L. McConaughy, onetime college president; in Michigan, racket-busting Kim Sigler; in California, Earl Warren, who had both parties' nominations. In Kansas it was veteran congressional tax expert Frank Carlson in a walk (despite his tacit support of the state's anomalous bone-dry law) over repeal-minded Harry Hines Woodring...