Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Extreme Drama. First to succeed in dramatizing the cotton situation was loud, extreme Governor Long. He called his Legislature into session, whipped through his bill prohibiting cotton planting next year under a penalty of $500 fine and 60 days imprisonment. The Louisiana law would be effective only when States producing 75% of the cotton crop took similar action. The economic theory behind this statute was that, if the South planted no cotton next year, this year's crop plus the carryover would more than double in value. Fantastic though the "Drop-a-Crop" scheme might be, it had one certain...
...loud rap-rap-rapping on his bedroom door late one night last month awoke Louisiana's red-headed Governor Huey Pierce Long from a sound sleep in the executive mansion at Baton Rouge. He sat up, rubbed his eyes, looked at his watch. It said 1:40 a. m. He said, "Come in." And in trooped legislative clerks, secretaries, photographers, newshawks. The Governor was handed a pen and a bill just passed by the night-sitting Legislature...
...loud, mechanically jovial martial air is the "Stein Song" of the University of Maine. It had become popular through the efforts of Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, who, born 30 years ago in Island Pond, Vermont, had grown up in Westbrook, Maine, gone to Yale University, become a crooner. The State of Maine has been hunting an official song. "How about the 'Stein Song'?," asked someone. Replied Chairman Daniel W. Hoegg of the State of Maine Publicity Bureau last week: "The 'Stein Song' may help the University of Maine, but it doesn't say a thing...
...Loud Congressman Wright Patman of Texas telegraphed hundreds of his colleagues, suggested they appear in Washington Sept. 15, hold a rump meeting of , the House, agitate for relief legislation until President Hoover heeds their demands for a special session...
...State Department get the letter? Again loud denials...