Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven, April 15--Amid a bursting of firecrackers and loud cheering, the Yale Chapter of the Veterans of Future Wars was formed here tonight...
...Rose McConnell Long was called on for the first time to preside temporarily over the Senate. Last week the new Senator from Louisiana made her maiden Congressional speech, not on the Senate floor but in the privacy of a Public Lands Committee hearing. In pleasant contrast to the loud histrionics of her late husband & predecessor, it was a mild little plea for the passage of a bill to enlarge Chalmette National Historical Park, on the site of the Battle of New Orleans. "Had we not won that battle," said Widow Long of the great victory which Andrew Jackson...
Deprive a man of food for three days and he will respond biologically. Then give him a chance to steal a loaf of bread and he will respond culturally. But where biology stops and culture begins is a question over which sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists have quarreled long & loud. In essence their dispute is the ancient one of Nature v. Nurture, of Instinct v. Conditioning, of Heredity v. Environment. Dr. Gordon Willard Allport of Harvard feels that there have been too few concrete demonstrations of how much truth there is on each side. Such a demonstration he published last week...
...Corporation. Directors & management of the Corporation bore a strong resemblance to directors & management of the Company,* but the Corporation abandoned the business of guaranteeing mortgage bonds and bank deposits, went back to its original fidelity and surety business. Holders of mortgage bonds guaranteed by the Company yelled loud & long, since the guaranteed bonds were not taken over as liabilities of the Corporation. But the Court decided that the reborn National Surety should be given a fair start in life, since its stock might become a valuable asset to be disposed of in the creditors' behalf...
...others was an interest in Anaconda Copper, the sale of which in 1896 gave Publisher Hearst $7,500,000 to finance his loud entrance into Manhattan journalism...