Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep the 332 Democrats of the House in order. Rules given the subwhips: Four of them must be on the floor of the House at all sessions; all of them when important measures are under consideration; they must shush the Majority whenever it threatens to lose its dignity, become loud and boisterous; must forewarn the leaders of revolts brewing; must keep Democrats from signing petitions to discharge unwelcome bills from committees; must, above all, not allow the formation of blocs...
Observed in proper legal form in thousands of U. S. banks last week was that hallowed financial institution, "bank meeting week." The turnout was small. For the first time in eight years the bankers faced their stockholders with the comforting assurance that their greetings would not be returned with loud boos and cat calls. Indeed, many a banker had the long-forgotten pleasure of receiving a rising vote of confidence and appreciation. In serene sessions throughout the land the stockholders nodded approval to 1936 reports, listened respectfully to what the bankers had to say. Operating profits were up a little...
...loud rap sounded one evening last week at the door of a banquet room in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria in which sat Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, Munitions Tycoon Alexis Felix du Pont, Herbert Lee Pratt, onetime board chairman of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Charles K. Davis of Remington Arms Co., some 200 other big & little wigs. A waiter opened the door, and in waddled Field & Stream's hearty Publisher Eltinge F. Warner disguised as Donald Duck, with a large basket on his arm. Squawking, he advanced to the speaker's table, pumped the hand...
...statute of NRA has been outlawed. The problems have not. They are still with us." The Constitution. Loud and long was the applause greeting these sentiments...
...Fanny S. Copeland's English translation of a German translation of Balmont's Russian translation. Though the poem had grown worse in its travels, nobody seemed to care. The audience was thrilled by Rachmaninoff's ingenious sonorities, by the whispering pianissimi and loud thundering of the University of Pennsylvania chorus, by the shivering of parallel fifths in the high winds. Critics found The Bells an effective piece of scoring, mourned its unevenness. The audience was less reserved, applauded loudly, even more loudly when Composer Rachmaninoff came on after the intermission and played his Second Concerto...