Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign, his obstreperous opponent filled the Minnesota air with sound and fury. On the stump Candidate Shoemaker poured vitriol on everyone within reach. He was arrested in shirtsleeves, swinging a broomstick, during Minneapolis' truck strike riots. When the vote was counted last week quiet Radical Shipstead had beaten loud Radical Shoemaker no less than 3 to 1. The blatancy of Mr. Shoemaker had been too much for even Minnesota's Farmer-Laborites. Moreover, he had found in the editor of the Hibbing, Minn. Tribune (Republican) a man who could outShoemaker Shoemaker. In the final days of the campaign...
Suddenly amid a loud crunching of steel on stone, the Dresden quivered from stem to stern. Down in the dining saloon waiters plunged head first into their platters. Decks tilted crazily while frightened Germans ran screaming from rail to rail. In a few minutes the Dresden's first S. O. S. was picked up by the coastal steamers King Harald and Crown Princess Martha, and the French navy despatch boat Ardent. The giant British battleship Rodney, visiting Stavanger, also heard the call but was told that no further assistance was necessary...
...Catherine the Great), she will make at least one more picture directed by Josef von Sternberg. Most pretentious picture on Paramount's present schedule is Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert), directed by Cecil B. DeMille, with Warren William as Caesar and 8,000 extras. The Legion of Decency will probably take loud alarm at She Loves Me Not, Sailor, Beware! and The Pursuit of Happiness, all Manhattan stage successes of the last season and all concerned with misbehavior. A Paramount experiment this year will be four pictures produced in Manhattan by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht...
...sums up the New Deal's accomplishments and aims: "Mr. Roosevelt did a lot of reforestation in our governmental landscape; many were tending the new saplings; but it was nobody's business to look at the woods." The crash of 1929 and the depression had a loud bark but no real bite, says Author Soule. "It is clear that we are not now in the critical period of revolution. What the depression of the thirties gave us was an excellent foretaste, however, of the aspect that crisis will assume if it does come. . . . [The President and his advisers...
...there. All the world knows for sure is that Hitler has somehow managed to capture the submarine of state. The Berlin Diaries, purporting to be the genuine journal of an anonymous Berlin War Office official, gives an eyewitness day-by-day account of the muddled machinations that made a loud demagog into Germany's Chancellor. Sure to be labeled propaganda or forgery by indignant Nazis, the essential authenticity of The Berlin, Diaries is vouched for by Edgar Ansel Mowrer, onetime Berlin correspondent of the Chicago Daily News and head of the Berlin Foreign Correspondents' Bureau until expelled from...