Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written for His Majesty's utterance by Socialists.* It was noticed that as the Socialist Lord Chancellor, Sir John Sankey, knelt and presented the speech his hand trembled. Grasping the document firmly the King-Emperor began to read in a voice which, when he was not clearing his throat, rang loudly and distinctly through the oblong, Gothic hall. Excerpts...
...kind of coordinating job. . . . The best we can do is to let various places know what others are doing. . . ." But at the desk they cleared for him in the Department of Commerce, Col. Woods gave a lively imitation of Washington's Busiest Man. His telephone rang at the rate of once every two minutes. Government officials from the Postmaster General down to the Chairman of the Shipping Board called to offer assistance. He hired Edward L. Bernays, smart Manhattan pressagent, to publicize the Government's work. Into newsreel microphones he preached a gospel of "sprucing up the home...
...Again he rang the Republican challenge on U. S. advantages: "In proportion to our population, we have one-fourth more of our children in grade schools than the most advanced other country in Europe. . . . Today we have more of our youth in institutions of higher learning than all the rest of the 1,500,000,000 people of the world put together. . . "Twice the number of homes owned . . . four times as much electricity . . . seven times as many automobiles . . . four times as many telephones and radio sets...
...facing a crisis, due to the unwarranted attacks of a militant minority." So last week spoke Albert Henry Morrill, President of National Chain Store Association, President of Kroger Grocery & Baking Corp. His speech, opening the N. C. S. A. convention in Chicago, sounded the defensive note that rang forth again & again throughout the meeting...
...Federal District Court at St. Paul last week rang to the sound of big figures, big names. A widow filed suit against Inland Steel Co., Great Northern Railway Co. for patent infringement, filed similar suits against U. S. Steel Corp. and its subsidiaries Carnegie Steel Co., U. S. Steel Products Co. Five hundred million dollars -a half-billion-is the total of her claims, but the figure's reverberations seemed to have a hollow ring...