Word: murmurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers-the majority-organization to represent all. The strike, he said, should be indefinitely postponed and, if the steel industry accepted these terms, canceled. With unwonted vigor Mr. Green turned on the delegates and declared: "I insist upon your acting favorably upon this proposition." They did-with only a murmur of dissent. Highly pleased, Messrs. Green and Tighe entrained for Washington to put the union's offer to Madam Secretary Perkins and the President. Said Mr. Tighe: "We are not going to be sold out by Roosevelt and we know it." Meanwhile in Washington President Roosevelt was giving...
...House passed the McDuffie Bill yesterday with scarcely a murmur of protest, and all signs lead us to believe that the Senate will rapidly follow suit. This McDuffie Bill is a revised version of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Bill rejected by the Philippine Legislature last year, and it grants the Islands an even more complete independence. The changes in the Bill have been favorably commented upon by the President of the Philippine Senate, Manuel Quezon, and other prominent leaders in that legislature, and it is to be expected that the Bill will be immediately granted the required sanction...
...Stewart-Warner management had been astute, they would also have induced Mr. Zerk to agree to stay out of Stewart-Warner's business. For Mr. Zerk happened to be the fourth largest stockholder (5,000 shares) and had no intention of watching his investments depreciate without a murmur. Last spring Mr. Zerk launched a ferocious proxy campaign to oust the management, charging them with pocketing unconscionable fat bonuses, with gross inefficiency and general lack of business acumen...
...what a budget ought to be. Of its 2,112,000,000 yen ($633,600,000), full 44% went to the Army and Navy, an alltime peacetime high. The Army got 450,000,000 yen ($135,000,000), the Navy 488,000,000 yen ($146,400,000). Hardly a murmur was raised against this gigantic bill for war weapons and men to use them. Indeed, Foreign Minister Korekiyo Takahashi was credited with a victory in preventing the budget from going up another 400,000,000 yen as the Army and Navy originally wanted...
...unbalanced budget, the Chamber of Deputies warily received last week the new Cabinet of that sleek, nine-lived gourmet, Premier Albert Sarraut (TIME, Nov. 6). Impeccable in a frock-coat freshly pressed as usual, M. Sarraut serenely mounted the tribune, adjusted his gleaming pince-nez and read in a murmur a declaration of policy so carefully prolix and nebulous that it lulled and stupefied all opposition-as smart M. Sarraut intended. The Chamber will be left to face of itself the necessity of balancing the budget, Premier Sarraut indicated. When he asked a vote of confidence, more than 200 bored...