Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visitors came and went. Midnight came, 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock. The newshawks in the corridor tried to encourage one another by saying that they thought that the voices in the sickroom were not so loud. Someone even thought he heard laughter. Finally the door opened. Out came Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, his red hair awry, his face haggard. The Department of Labor's conciliator, James Francis Dewey, followed, his plump jowls sagging with fatigue. General Motors' Lawyer-Vice President John Thomas Smith emerged smiling. Newshawks trooped after them to the elevator...
...conservative estimate, the damage done amounted to $100,000,000. It was South Carolina's turn to howl next. General Sherman headed his troop: north and began destroying things right & left. By the time the capital city of Columbia was sacked and burned, South Carolinians were howling as loud as their Georgia neighbors...
...ring had decided to attend the Coronation next May, Ambassador von Ribbentrop announced that the Reich is spending ?100,000 ($500,000) to enlarge its London Embassy by throwing three great houses into one. Last week this work was going at rush pace and in the House of Commons loud protests were made by Laborite M. P.'s because British workmen were not in on it. Over from Germany, the Baron had brought some 145 bronzed and healthy Nazi workmen. Not only did they fail to correspond to anti-Nazi descriptions of how in Nazi-land most people...
...turn-out of no less than 1,300 excited Parisian and provincial shareholders, the meeting was as raucous as a stormy session of the Chamber of Deputies. It took Governor Emile Labeyrie three hours to get through his scholarly 90-minute report, so often was he interrupted by catcalls, loud expressions of dissent and ironic cries of "Vive la Banque!" Wide open was the governor to shareholders' jokes, for his report, written a while before, was crammed with cheer, confidence and numerous vows to defend the franc and the low rediscount rate. At the moment the franc was sinking...
...pick-up-&-delivery service are all exciting evidences of the railroads' rebirth. Most spectacular bid for patronage was the 2? base passenger fare, inaugurated by southern and western roads where the traffic is light and forced on all roads last June by the Interstate Commerce Commission over the loud protests of the Pennsylvania, New York Central and New York, New Haven & Hartford. Last week New York Central reported that passenger revenue had climbed from $55,290,000 in 1935 to $62,500,000 in 1936, Pennsylvania that passenger business was up from...