Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally all bishops present and the general Anglican Assembly were worked up to loud and prolonged cheering by the Bishop of Durham. "Jews are just as mixed a race as the Germans; they could hardly be more!" cried this Lord Spiritual. "This nonsense about 'race'-as if there were some poison in the ancestry of Judaism which must be guarded against- is sheer hallucination. It is preposterous! . . . We loathe and detest this attitude obtaining in Germany and protest...
...faint click click, followed by loud applause, broke the tingly silence. Boyish-looking Welker Cochran strutted and grinned because with that last shot he had beaten grey-haired Willie Hoppe, 50-to-46, in 45 innings, regained the world's three-cushion billiard championship...
While driving past Massachusetts Institute of Technology's swank No. 6 Club in Cambridge, Mass, one night, many a motorist was startled by a loud thwack on the roof of his car. Finally one driver stopped, found that his car had been dented, notified police. Few minutes later two patrolmen in a cruising car pulled up in front of "No. 6 Club, waited to be thwacked, were not disappointed. Spying a raised, unlighted window on the third floor, they sneaked upstairs, found Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt, 19-year-old son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, a friend named Peter...
...Catholic votes: 1) In a letter to the Knights of Columbus of New Haven, the President reiterated that his policy would be one, in no sense of "indifference," but absolutely of "nonintervention" with the Mexican Government in its domestic war on the Catholic Church. 2) Charles Edward Coughlin, the loud Michigan radio priest who once cried "Roosevelt or Ruin" and since has differed with the New Deal on several issues, made the breach definite. He publicly proclaimed: "Today I humbly stand before the American public to admit that I have been in error. . . . Like a grotesque Colossus, this Administration stands...
Last June Congress passed a law denying pay checks to any District of Columbia public school teacher who should "teach or advocate" Communism. Followed loud arguments as to what "teaching" Communism meant. To William Randolph Hearst the issue was perfectly simple. Explained his New York American: "The word 'teaching' as used in the statutes in conjunction with the word 'advocating' covers the whole field and PROHIBITS INSTRUCTION AS WELL AS ADVOCACY." But to E. Barrett Prettyman, corporation counsel for the District of Columbia, "teaching" meant outright advocacy, did not mean a factual, unbiased treatment...