Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Justice Hughes is having the most enjoyable time of his career on the Supreme bench. When delivering an opinion, he throws back his black robe, lifts his white head, speaks out in a voice so loud and clear that John Marshall's bust trembles in its niche...
...union (TIME, March 30 et seq.). Dr. Curtius has yet to win a major diplomatic victory. He is a family man, devoted to his small children. Whenever he returns to Berlin from an official mission the crust of his formal reception at the railway station is punctured by their loud whoops. Studious and a hard, clear thinker, Husband Curtius has much that a Foreign Minister should have-has no genius...
...heavier taxation to be imposed at the next session of Congress. Secretary Mellon was supposed to be considering a 1? per gal. Federal gasoline tax which would net the Treasury $400,000,000. Automobile associations, and State tax authorities who now have a monopoly on this levy, protested loudly. Suggestions from Chairman Will Wood of the House Appropriations Committee that a general sales tax be inaugurated sent department store owners into a frenzy of apprehension. Other proposals included an increase in the inheritance tax, and revival of the old gift and automobile sales taxes. Opposed as ever to tax legislation...
...Pilsudski Colonels used to dine nightly at the Cafe Europejska, most fashionable in Warsaw. There, amid popping champagne corks, loud Polish music and exciting Polish women, they made the crazy-quilt politics of Poland. In 1929, however, so many "Pilsudski Colonels" were called to onerous tasks of Government that cafe politics have been on the wane. Never a very good cafe politician was small, stern, intensely militant (although sartorially perfect) Col. Alexander Prystor...
Well, it's obvious from that, that the weekend was spoiled. They heard President Lowell speak and Dr. Huey disrupted the very estimable gathering by offering, in a loud voice, to wager on the time he spoke. So they finally came home into last night thoroughly disgruntled. And the Vagabond is herein chronicling his side of the story for his own protection and, needs must add, watch out what Dr. Hu Flung Huey will do to those boat races! And that, too is not the mere bias of a literary quarrel as if may seem...