Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Pierson said that a referendum of all the Chambers of Commerce had backed their rational executives' program 90% strong. The Chamber was anxious for its tax cut, said President Pierson, even if, combined with big appropriations, it resulted in a deficit. President Coolidge's voice rose and rang bitterly as he called this talk "absurd," especially coming from Business men who apparently were unaware that budget law obliges the Treasury to eschew deficits...
...writings of other individuals. But I can't understand why real evidence upon the charges is not presented. I am willing to listen to the long-haired patriot from the Pacific coast. I am willing to listen to the witnesses from the Atlantic coast but [his voice rose with anger] I am not willing to listen to Mr. Russell, a Socialist ['prosecution' witness testifying of pro-British propaganda in the U. S.], whose greatest ambition is realized when you pit nation against nation." The Chicago affair may become Cadmean* for Mayor Thompson...
...radical political theories, has had wide-reaching experience as a journalist. After teaching at the University for two years following his graduation in 1893, he joined the staff of the Philadelphia Press in 1896, and a year later took up editorial writing for the New York Evening Post. He rose rapidly in his profession and soon became president of the Evening Post. Selling out his interests in this paper in 1918, he founded in that year the New York Nation, which he nows owns and edits. Mr. Villard is also the owner of the Nautical Gazette, of New York...
When the House reassembled Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister again rose to reply Ito the Laborite attack. Prime Minister Baldwin sat, as calmly as ever, with his feet on the treasury table. Again rose the cries "We want Baldwin! We want the organ-grinder, not the monkey...
Once more the speaker rose, said...