Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There have been persistent rumors circulating among the denizens of the yard that a special freight car will bring it East and that all Purthunder will strike terror into the thunder will strike trror into the hearts of the Crimson stands and sound the note of victory for the wild warriors from the West...
Last week Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine felt like a person who, upon making some sound in the presence of a high-strung friend, is suddenly turned upon and bitterly accused of willful noisiness...
...Secretary Jardine's case, the offending sound was a routine bi- monthly report prepared by some of his economic experts on the world's cotton markets. The last sentence in the report said: "As was indicated in last month's report, should the present estimate of production be realized and past relationship between supply and price prevail, it is likely that prices will decline in the next few months...
...play is annoyingly cut up into a string of episodes darkening the theatre and breaking its spell whenever.the audience begins to succumb to what might have been effective historical drama. It was written by Maurine Watkins, a young woman who last year attracted attention by a sound piece of debunking called Chicago. She took her material for Revelry from the novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams and for local color she went to Washington, moseyed about the lobby halls, chatted with the politicians, pried, snooped, took notes. To see Miss Watkins, whose beauty is fresh and sweet as the first blush...
Something had to be done, and was done last week. The Federal Reserve Board announced that it was fixing 3½% as the Chicago district's rediscount rate. Chicago bank directors growled, refused to "talk for publication." Said Governor Crissinger: "The Federal Reserve Board established the rate of 3½% for sound reasons. That is all there is to it." The Chicago Journal of Commerce warned: ". . . It would be much easier than eastern bankers know to make a political issue of the Federal Reserve System. . . . Difficult would be the defense of it if an issue were made...