Word: shrills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic malcontents, grandiosely naming themselves the American National Democratic Committee, assembled on the fringe of the Convention, trying for a Byrd Bricker ticket, but died of avoidance. "General" Jacob S. Coxey, sans army, argued for his own free-wheeling fiscal plan. Gerald L. K. Smith, followed by a shrill covey of "We the Mothers," took over the Stevens ballroom while the Chicago Symphony orchestra was tuning up on the stage. Smith so loudly denounced Dewey, Willkie, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin that politicos in the Bricker headquarters next door could hardly hear each other weakly cheering on their losing fight...
...paratroopers hung their own shirts from the windows for recognition signals. The firing only grew heavier. They yelled to cut it out, but their friends could not hear. Then a U.S. paratrooper found a bullet-pierced German bugle. He thrust it out the window. Above the firing rang the shrill familiar notes of "chow call...
...first geologist ever to be a Standard president, Eugene Holman made his most notable claim to the public's attention in April, when he calmly contradicted Oil Boss Harold Ickes' shrill predictions of an oil famine. Said Eugene Holman: If U.S. business has vigor, vision and a cooperative Government, the nation's oil should last for 1,000 years or more...
...Alabama, drawling Lister Hill, who coon-shouted the nomination of Franklin Roosevelt for Term III at Chicago, fought for his U.S. Senate seat against well-to-do, sad-faced James Simpson, 54, banker, corporation lawyer, respected state legislator. With "white supremacy" as a shrill battle cry, Birmingham's moneyed, mill-owning, New Deal-hating "Big Mules" got behind Candidate Simpson and pushed hard. So did the Negro-baiting Alabama Sun and Alabama Magazine, whose specialty is pictures showing Eleanor Roosevelt being civil to Negroes. Simpson campaigners vigorously lambasted Lister Hill as a traitor to Southern ideals, a tool...
Marshall Field's quiet Chicago Sun and shrill New York PM were cooing over another London scoop: Kuh had cabled the story of Bulgaria's peace terms a good twelve hours before his competitors came across the story. It is beginning to be news when Kuh is not ahead of a major European story by hours, if not by days. His recent record: the time, scene and dramatis personae of the Hull-Eden-Molotov Moscow conference, some three weeks before it was announced; Italy's surrender, four days before it happened; the basic Allied conditions for peace...