Word: proclaiming
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...election on July 7 had decided nothing. Both Government Candidate Manuel Avila Camacho and Oppositionist Almazán claimed victory and each faction had announced that it would install a Congress, which as an electoral college would pass on the validity of its own election and on Sept. 1 proclaim its candidate President...
...away from his prepared address: "On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor."The U. S. had taken sides. Ended was the myth of U. S. neutrality: "Let us not hesitate-all of us-to proclaim . . . victory for the gods of force and hate would endanger the institutions of democracy in the Western World . . . the whole of our sympathies lie with those nations which are giving their life blood in combat against those forces." Ended was the Utopian hope that the U. S. could remain...
...before bargain hunters could decide whether to wait for lower prices, one big question had to be answered. Would the President proclaim a National Emergency, approve of SEC's closing the Exchanges? Clamor for such a step grew noisier. The Wall Street Journal chided the clamorers, editorialized: "The Securities and Exchange Commission and the authorities of the New York Stock Exchange are to be congratulated upon their refusal to interfere. . . . The wisdom of this policy is demonstrated by the fact that there has been an actual market throughout the entire decline, with no more than one or two cases...
...Coming Towards You stands out like a billboard among current books of verse. It has its author's excitement to proclaim, and it proclaims it in images that crash all the gates of its reader's senses. As an eye-catcher, it rates 100; as an eye-opener, perhaps five...
...bookshops in both towns proclaim in gigantic letters across their windows that no one should miss reading Louis Bromfield's The Rains Came, "a book about indestructible India." No other books seemed to be advertised. Now this story is written in a strongly anti-British vein. I enjoyed reading it very much, but twice I remember hurling it to the ground with rage at its prejudice, injustice and ignorance. Goebbels is running this India racket, I am certain of it. Why should at least three questions about India be asked at every one of Duff's lectures...