Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury. The committees: 1) Pensions, headed by South Carolina's Allard Henry Casque (pronounced Gaski), whose own military experience is limited to honorary membership in the United Spanish War Veterans, and 2) the Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation, whose chairman is Mississippi's loud, bushy-haired John Elliott Rankin. Congressman Rankin lists himself in his official biography as "ex-soldier of the World War" because he spent the 22 days before the Armistice at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky...
...floor, under the unusual procedure of suspending the rules. The bill could never have reached the House but for quick conniving by Administration Leaders Bankhead and Rayburn, whose orders from the White House might have read: "Take the Rankin Bill; maybe it will head off Gasque." With but one loud NO the bill was passed by the House, swallowed by the Administration and sent to the Senate after Congressman Griswold assured his colleagues: "When you get the rate down to 10% the line of demarcation between the service-connected and the non-service-connected cases is very small...
...years ago when Illinois' Democratic Governor Henry Horner advanced his feud with Chicago's Democratic Mayor Edward J. Kelly by a State law requiring the permanent registration of voters, many and loud were reformers' predictions of what the Chicago voting lists would reveal. Last week the Cook County Board of Election Commissioners, which has been investigating the lists for a year, made one highly interesting revelation: that 150,000 of the county's 2,000,000 enrolled voters are not U. S. citizens...
...kill him have now been made to realize that such impulses lead, via the secret police, into the court cheering section for Stalin, thence down into the cork-lined cellars where this week the 18 were due to be noiselessly executed. Rozengolts' protestation that his children are loud in the Stalin chorus may save them, but the piece of consecrated bread may well mean death for his wife. Nothing was known last week, nothing is ever published, about the fate of members of the families of men shot after the trials in Moscow. In the Soviet Union they...
Pistol shrimp, which snap their claws with a report as loud as that of a cap pistol...