Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late the papers have been glutted with news, essays and articles on the Soviet regime. There are rumours that Stalin is fighting for a lost cause; there are defiant denunciations which proclaim Russia a strong child that will soon grow up. No one knows what to believe. The world is waiting, a bit impatiently...
...Virginia ... on the behalf of the whole country have decided to become your executioners. You have been . . . found guilty of subterfuge and as undesirable aliens. And now, as Governor of Virginia, I hereby proclaim that you shall be sent to the realm of unreality where you belong...
...usually blind to their own tendencies, but vividly aware of their own disinclinations. While not knowing what they are doing or what they want to do, they realize quite clearly what they do not want to do, and they are apt to grasp at this negative, and to proclaim it, in place of the very tiring calculations which any positive policy would entail...
When he took office as chairman Senator Fess could not proclaim the party bone-Dry because too many Republican candidates are running as Wets. Therefore, last week, he weaseled conventionally: "I don't see how Prohibition can be made a party issue in this campaign. We will, however, take a decided stand on law enforcement...
...States be convened . . . to consider and determine whether the advice and consent of the Senate shall be given to the ratification of a treaty for the limitation and reduction of naval armaments signed at London . . . Now, therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires that Senate to convene . . . on the seventh day of July at 12 o'clock noon...