Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...therefore, I, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Mayor of the City of New York, by virtue of the statutes and established customs in such case made and provided, do proclaim that an emergency exists which threatens the peace and good order of the City of New York, and do hereby prohibit from and after the 26th day of December, 1935, the sale, display and possession of artichokes...
...every conscientious objector to the AAA program and to its un-American and apparently unconstitutional measures, plant a potato patch," exhorted Clubwoman Newkirk. "Let every such potato patch bear a sign in large letters to proclaim the protest far & wide...
...States, Mrs. Clements says her husband is now only moderately well-to-do. But they can afford to drive a Lincoln automobile, criss-cross the country by airplane keep up an eight-room apartment. Early this year three Denver Townsendites returned from a mission to Washington to proclaim that Founders Townsend and Clements were not really trying to get their scheme through Congress were simply staging enough of a show to keep the money coming in. Frank Peterson, onetime Townsend publicity director charged that the Clementses' high living was entirely paid for by the pennies & nickels of deluded oldsters...
...Then why proclaim her Presbyterianism? Why not go over lock, stock and barrel to our Romanish friends...
...worse than useless for opponents of the bill to point out that in passing the oath bill the gentlemen of Beacon Hill are subverting the very constitution of which they so loudly proclaim themselves the guardian angels. Such pseudo-patriotic cliques as the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution (Sic!) whose life blood has always been publicity, have more effect upon state legislatures in their present state of decay...