Word: stentor
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...precisely 12:31 one day last week, William Moseley ("Fishbait") Miller, Doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives, rose and raised a stentor's voice: "Mistuh Speakuh: the President of the United States." To the standing applause of a joint session of the U.S. Congress, a smiling Dwight Eisenhower (carefully shirted in television blue) strode to the rostrum. He was beginning two difficult years of business with a Congress organized by an opposition party that had one main...
Like the cry of Stentor, a voice arose last week over the noise of rush-hour traffic at Chicago's Archer and Western Avenues. "It was Henry Ford who made the automobile," it thundered, "but it was the Democratic Party that gave you the social system which enabled you to buy the cars." While Chicagoans headed home for dinner, the voice continued to sound. When traffic began to thin out, a powder-blue Ford station wagon with four loudspeaker horns on its roof wheeled off from Archer and Western and headed across town...
Budget. John Taber, the man with the voice of a stentor, said he saw the way to slash $9 billion from the federal budget. This was a "minimum," he said. Senator Taft recently vowed that the Republicans could make a $13 billion cut once they got their hands on the budget. Some of the savings Taber saw would be in nonrecurring items (e.g.: food subsidies, Export-Import Bank, World Bank and World Fund). On other items Taber promised to use a sledge hammer if necessary. Items which immediately met his eye: $2.5 billion from Army & Navy; $2 billion in terminal...
...Lewis timing could not have been more fiendish. Cap Krug, electioneering on the West Coast, hurriedly denied Lewis' charge that Government "misinterpretations" of the contract had cost the miners "millions." Then he bluntly told the great stentor that the meeting would have to wait until after election...
...right. Next day, C.I.O. President Phil Murray sang out lustily because any controls had been dropped. Industry's top stentor, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President William K. Jackson, yelled because any had been kept. Lesser fry-packers, cattle and grocery men, the pro-and anti-control press, etc.-broke out in a contagion of argument. Last of all, the consumer took up the battle with violent yes and no messages to the Board...