Word: vehemently
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...happy idea" took tangible form last week when Germany offered to buy 600,000 of the Federal Farm Board's 1,300,000 bales of cotton on long term credits. But even before the State Department had transmitted the German proposal to the Board, Washington resounded with vehement protests from the cotton-growing south. Led by mumbly Senator Smith of South Carolina and bushy-browed Senator Harris of Georgia, cotton men declared that the German market by rights belonged to the 1931 crop now coming in, not to the 1930 crop which the Farm Board stabilized...
...elimination not only of "The World's Turned Upside Down" but also of the whole episode of the Cornwallis surrender. They argued that such a scene, such a tune, might injure the patriotic sensibilities of friendly British visitors. Against any such elimination Congressman Bloom raised his voice in vehement protest. He wanted history, including "The World's Turned Upside Down," repeated as it occurred 150 years ago. The following long-range colloquy took place between him and Virginia's Congressman Schuyler Otis Bland, secretary of the Yorktown celebration...
...wages will probably stay where they are. Otherwise, wages will probably go the way of salaries. At its meeting two days after U. S. Steel, Bethlehem reduced its common dividend from $4 yearly to $2, but took no action on wages. To date President Farrell's vehement declaration last year, "Oh, no! Wages in the steel industry are not coming down," remains uncontradicted, though the "stagger system," whereby more men work fewer hours, has been generally adopted. In wages, as in price cuts, bulky earnest Mr. Farrell has so far been able to marshal his colleagues. The near future...
...avoid these excesses, while retaining the admitted benefits of syndicalism, His Holiness appeared to favor a system of co-operation between Capital & Labor based upon local units, similar in scope to the medieval guilds. Syndicalism on a national scale he thought too great a concentration of "vehement power" (in such hands as Benito Mussolini's, not of course mentioned by name). A sufficient overseeing influence Pius XI discerned in "the blessing of God" and "the co-operation of all men of good will...
...acute observer may see an occasional lady leaning over her casement in the hope that a modern knight will pass by in a suave phaeton gayly tirra-lirraing. Whereas the Vagabond does not profess to be more than slightly conversant with such cardiac matters he has heard from vehement, if not avowedly authentic sources that a knowledge of poetry is rarely a hindrance and often a help...