Word: rants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's milestone was not erected until after the House had shouted itself hoarse in debate. Within six hours, 40 members in turn bounced up to shout, roar, sob, rant, plead or threaten, for & against. In a decade and one-half Prohibition had been argued threadbare. There was nothing new or sensational left to say. Only stunt: appearance before the House of New York's Sirovich, a physician, with 18 bottles of beer, a pint of Scotch whiskey, a quart of milk and a declaration that the 18 bottles of beer contained the same amount of alcohol...
...vested in a Federal Commissioner, blunt Dr. Franz Bracht. He took the line last week that he and all his ministers are not responsible to the Prussian Diet, but solely to President von Hindenburg. Therefore Dr. Bracht let Prussian Deputies elected by three-fifths of the German people rave, rant and grow purple in the face...
...Harilal, onetime foe of Nationalism, renounced his opposition and went to prison in Ahmedabad. But his youngest son did even more. Last week Devi Das Gandhi, 20, was to have married the 19-year-old daughter of his father's good friend C. R. Rajagopalachari. A war rant was out for the arrest of Devi Das. If he tried to go to the northwestern frontier, where trouble was brewing, he knew he would surely be captured. Be tween love and duty Devi Das did not long waver. He went to the railroad station in New Delhi where a squad...
...driving teams for objective games or for the pleasure of Alumni; it may be he has seen the fallacy in this popular deification of a sport, but whatever the reason that prompted him to make this statement it is of far greater significance than most of the aimless rant on the evils of football...
...primary campaign, Mr. Morrow had no public record on Prohibition. In his first address he declared for repeal of the 18th Amendment and return of the question to the States. Unlike numerous Wet demagogs in both parties who feast publicly on the bones of Dry mistakes, he did not rant and roar against Prohibition. He discussed it with cool-headed dispassion and dignity. He tried to un- scramble morals from government, warned of the Federal Government as "an alien and even hostile power," counseled a new "reasonableness" between Wets and Drys...