Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dean could proclaim himself dictator," Lerner writes, "and his loyal adherents would wear red shirts to classes. A notice of secession would be sent to the Governor of the Common wealth...
...young Queen Victoria, having ruled England for a year, stood on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with a proclamation. "Because the slaves of Jamaica are impatient for freedom," she read in a thin young voice, "we proclaim them free; and 100 years from this day the plantations of Jamaica shall be divided into small pieces, and each descendant of these freedmen shall be given a small piece." The crowd cheered; the more enthusiastic abolitionists threw their hats...
...Since no legal statute prohibits and no moral sense prevents the exploitation of the death of my son in the Spanish war for the publicity purposes of subversive politics, my patriotic chore prompts me to proclaim this 'memorial meeting' for what it is-more Moscow...
Among the automobile showrooms and tire and accessory shops where Boston's Commonwealth Avenue runs into Kenmore Square, gaudy posters proclaim TELEVISION. A PREVIEW OF TOMORROW. SENSATIONAL, ENTERTAINING, EDUCATIONAL. The sensation belongs to the Massachusetts Television Institute, licensed by the city authorities to operate America's first television theatre...
Tracing the history of Manhattan's housing problem, the Voice denounces such early settlers as Astor, Wendell, Goelet and Rhinelander, who, the Federal Theatre dramatists fervently proclaim, first grabbed the land and have snugly sat on it ever since. Less through their own foresight than through the industry of the masses, their land increased in value. And the masses got higher rent bills, housing that ran rapidly ramshackle...