Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Governor Ritchie lay ill and disappointed in his fine old brick mansion in Annapolis, Eastern Shoremen proclaimed that they would like to ''trade Governors" with California. They loudly crowed that Governor Ritchie, who has aspirations of succeeding himself for the fourth time or running for the U. S. Senate next year, was politically dead. There was also some loud talk of secession from Maryland, to form a 49th State of the Eastern Shore and parts of Virginia and Delaware...
...only had Craigavon's Unionists won a thumping majority in Parliament but they had won it before Election Day. Of their candidates 27 had no opponents in their constituencies, were elected "by acclamation." But last week through this hymn of acclamation came one loud, jarring noise...
Skiing down the glittering white shoulder of a Bavarian alp on the Austro-German border a group of black spots loomed large to an Austrian frontier patrol. In the huge, still basin a single shot sounded loud, a puff of smoke looked small against the snow. One of the coasting black spots crumpled, slid into a sprawled heap. Thus did a nervous Austrian soldier kill one Philipp Schumacher, private in the German Reichswehr...
...months from the wreck of an entire economic system is a seventh wonder of the world. And for this relief much thanks from 95% of the American people but-from the leaders, guides and scouts of the old road to ruin -what? Strident clamoring-a few little men with loud voices, frantically waving many puny red flags of false and futile warning in the path of the resistless advance of a great people-125,000,000 strong-united by suffering in a common purpose, by mutual sacrifice and cooperation and under the inspiring leadership of a great captain of humanity...
...Loud was the applause of Dr. Maher's professional listeners at Shelton. Next morning the Press took up his story, twisted it out of technical focus, sent it rumbling across the land. Headline gobblers gathered that a cure for tuberculosis was, if not already achieved, at least imminent...