Word: stentorian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...threatening to remonetize silver (see p. 14), by extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange bill. When Franklin Roosevelt-after a long conference with General Johnson and NRA Counsel Richberg aboard his train coming from Miami-drew into Washington's Union Station, he was surprised to hear the stentorian trumpets of the Marine Band playing "Happy Days Are Here Again" and William Woodwin's "The Franklin D. Roosevelt March," to see the smiling faces of 200 eager Representatives and 30 Senators. Hale and bronzed, he came out on the rear platform of his car to the gangway which...
Obedient to the stentorian voice of II Duce, the Italian Fascist newspapers have instituted a new typographical policy: the names of Mussolini and King Emmanuel will be printed in special type in the write-up text as well as the headlines, and what is more significant, the names of all lesser men will be rigorously, and perhaps conspicuously, omitted. The effect of these two rules naturally will be to exalt the Leader even more; and in consequence it may heighten the belief of the populace that when he passes, there will be none to replace him and things will...
...great State of which I have ever seen or heard. ... If the Stock Exchange so much as dares to put through this tax-dodging scheme to help deprive the unemployed of food and shelter it will only hasten the day of Federal regulation. . . ." Mayor O'Brien paid a stentorian tribute to himself and friends, declared they never wavered in their duty to "the great suffering masses of the City...
...that the stentorian blasts of Howard Scott and the other Technocrats have died away under the rigors of a close examination, a new and more demure solution to the social ill offers itself. Professor Cannon of Harvard, in a recent speech, advanced a theory which the gentlemen of the press have baptized with the title, "Biocracy." Though Professor Cannon himself deprecates any publicity attaching to his revelation, and probably expected none when he propounded it; the papers and the public have refused to let him go down unsung. His proposition has that indefinable quality of esoteric complexity which endears itself...
Starting from scratch again, but with confidence in his own spellbindery, Adolf Hitler slowly worked up the fantastic party he calls National Socialist, Nazi Fascist. Its program consists of stentorian appeals to every form of German prejudice. Essentially Nationalists and patrioteers, the Nazis insert "Socialist" into their party's name simply as a lure to discontented workers...