Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis Sound-Off. During one of the Labor Board's sessions John L. Lewis stalked in with the directors of his United Mine Workers. They listened to the testimony in silence but a few days later Mr. Lewis issued a statement from the Steel Workers Organizing Committee endorsed by the United Mine Workers. Said S. W. 0. C.: "The Federal Government throughout this entire situation has not displayed the slightest interest in protecting the rights of the steel workers on strike. . . . Seventeen steel workers have been cruelly and wantonly murdered. Not a single person has as yet been brought...
...Sound-Off. Startling though this blast at a friendly Administration was, it was not so startling as an attack on the Labor Board last week from Senator Gerald P. Nye, usually rated proLabor. Comparing it to a "kangaroo court," the North Dakota Senator cried: "The National Labor Relations Board seems to have gone out of its way to demonstrate to the public that it is a partisan body rather than a judicial institution. It has disqualified itself as a referee between management and workers...
...memory." Thousands of New England newlyweds and not-yet-weds got their first breathless glimpse of Manhattan from the deck of a Fall River queen, occasional suicides bought tickets and jumped overboard, U. S. Presidents and statesmen from abroad enjoyed the luxury of travel on Long Island Sound and well-dressed financiers on board were mistaken for sports and gamblers by sports and gamblers. A great show for ordinary passengers and dock gawpers was the splendorous debarkation of socialities at Newport...
...back his prestige with the Socialist rank & file, Vice Premier Blum judged correctly, was to sound clarion calls for action to achieve such old favorite Socialist "reforms" as nationalization of French railways and to demand that the Senate be made subordinate to the Chamber. "Remember how this was done," cried Orator 'Slum, "in the case of the House of Lords in England...
...Bridges was completely obscure. Born at Kensington, Australia, in 1900, he was christened Alfred Renton Bridges. His father, an estate agent there, explains that his son was called Renton but "this name was a bit too much for his American Pals," who dubbed him Harry. At 17, after a sound schooling, Alfred Renton Bridges got a job as a clerk in a Melbourne firm called Sauls & McDougal, Ltd. It was his father's desire that his son eventually join him in business. But restless young Renton wanted to go to sea, and in the hope that he might...