Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spring plowing was getting under way in Georgia's fat black fields last week. Peepers were already loud in the "branches" (brooks) and the doves and quail had started pairing. Along the red clay roads trundled wagonloads of grey cottonseed to market. A faint green was beginning to tint the woods. The season was getting along, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his white cottage among the pines at Warm Springs, had not yet announced his Cabinet or perfected his "New Deal...
...McTinley's toming, tan't have two Presidents.' . . . I went back to the White House again for the first time three years ago. . . . Downstairs nothing seemed familiar, but when we took the elevator and got off on the second floor I thought almost out loud: 'Oh, this takes me back.' It was an odor, something with roses. I couldn't tell Mrs. Hoover the smell reminded me of something, so I asked mother about it later. She said: 'Why, yes, there was always that nice smell there, of rose and a little musty...
...bill that "won't go through before March 4" was Senator Glass's to revamp the Federal Reserve system. Senator Long, opposed to its branch banking features, was out to talk it to death. He waved his arms in mighty circles. He bludgeoned the Senate with loud arrogant words. He drove most of his colleagues from the Chamber in utter disgust. But almost single-handed he did succeed in stalling all important Senate business for a solid week...
...Debated a bill by Virginia's Glass to reform the U. S. banking system, heard Louisiana's loud young Long tell its aged sponsor: "I happen to know a great deal more about branch banking than you have had a chance to know." ¶Adopted a resolution by Tennessee's McKellar calling upon the Civil Service Commission to report all Federal jobs outside Civil Service and open to "deserving" Democrats after March 4. ¶Debated War Debts and the French default...
...cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. These miscellaneous economic units were pulled together in one grand and wholly selfish drive to put the Philippines outside the U. S. tariff wall by means of making them a free and foreign country. Louisiana's loud Senator Long frankly exclaimed; "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. That applies to the cotton for the Senator from Mississippi [Harrison] and to the sugar for the Senator from Louisiana [himself]. So what's the argument?" At such an unabashed expression of motive, the Senate...