Word: clamoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief cause of Roosevelt's resentment, was drummed up by Norman Hapgood of Cottier's against Secretary of the Interior Ballinger. Taft knew, and Pringle proves, that the evidence was inaccurate. Taft stuck by Ballinger and fired Roosevelt's protege, Gilford Pinchot, for joining in the clamor...
...should decisively be shown that it is now the responsibility of the college as a whole, rather than just of the athletic associations, to preserve the standards of these Universities. It will no longer be possible to say that only losing teams are amateur; Messrs. Tunis and Kelley will clamor invalidly that Harvard's victories prove money in its pocket...
Richard Halliburton fulfilled himself in many ways and made it pay. He batted about Europe and the Orient, toured Tibet, climbed Fujiyama in midwinter. He mounted Olympus, swam the Hellespont, followed the trail of Ulysses from Ithaca back to Ithaca. Women's clubs began to clamor for him to address them and in 1925 he published his first book, The Royal Road to Romance...
...late 1920's California citizens began to clamor for large-scale, low-cost medical care. Last November, when liberal Democrat Culbert Levy Olson was elected Governor, he promised to sponsor a State system of compulsory health insurance. This threat of "government interference" spurred the California Medical Association, which for over ten years had been hatching health-insurance schemes, to announce a counterplan...
...Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa at 8:30 one morning last week, undergraduates dozing through their first class were suddenly awakened by a clamor of chapel and class bells. Soon student messengers rushed into their classrooms shouting: "War has been declared! Go to the chapel!" Five minutes later, as 600 excited undergraduates jammed into chapel, the organ played My Country, 'tis of Thee. To the platform marched the college dean, followed by an army officer...