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...loudest voice in Kansas City is the Kansas City Star and the loudest voice on the Star is hefty Managing Editor Roy Roberts'. For two years the Star's power and Roberts' weight have been pitted against Kansas City's $6,000,000 Union Station. "One of the best planned and most imposing [stations] this side of New York," editorialized the Star-but everybody who gets off a train has to mount two flights of steps to the lobby! "Ask the person with a weak heart who has just come here to see a doctor...
...radio station KWKH (formed from his own initials), who once made U.S. airways blue with his frequent harangues against chain-stores and Her bert Hoover ; of a heart attack ; in Shreveport, La. An admirer and intimate of the late Huey Long, Radioman Henderson made one of the loudest noises in early broadcasting (until depression and chain-broadcasting squeezed him out) ; as a side line sold lucky listeners his photograph and a 1-lb. can of "Hello World" coffee...
Harvard men who have been clamoring for their college's return to formal sports had their answer Saturday, and at came from some of the loudest of the clamorers, the athletes themselves. While Deerfield Academy was trouncing the home team on Soldiers Field to the one of 26 to 2, the Crimson was putting on an exhibition of poor playing and even poorer sportsmanship...
Large cities felt the meat shortage as never before. New York City seemed to have the largest problem, and as usual made the loudest noise. Hundreds of its butcher shops closed. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers still ate well-in restaurants. But many more did not. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia screamed at Washington: "You can't feed headlines to children!" He proposed that restaurant eaters be made to give up red ration points for meat served to them. Said the OPA of the Mayor's scheme: "Too late...
...loudest propaganda machine in history, the German radio, stumbled through its death-scene to musical accompaniment, finally died away piecemeal. Berlin began broadcasting in spasms, grew fainter & fainter, fell silent without a sign...