Word: vehemently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same year he led the fight which passed, over President Hoover's veto, the Cutting-Hawes Bill for Philippine Independence. In the 1930-31 session he labored mightily to knit the disorganized Progressives into a bloc. Never sympathetic to the Hoover administration, he became its increasingly vehement critic as the Depression deepened. Early in the Depression he introduced a bill for a $5,000,000,000 bond issue to pay for a public works program. Following its defeat he continued to bark unceasingly at the Presidential heels for a positive relief program. Having lined up behind President Roosevelt...
...County government should be abolished lock, stock, and barrel, root and branch," declared Arthur N. Holcombe '09, professor of Government, in a vehement statement made yesterday. He explained that the duties now administered by the counties "should be distributed among the various State departments...
...dangerous." The New York State Censors refused to give the picture a license. Thereupon Paramount officials in Manhattan sent the film back to Hollywood for a new title and other changes. When Belle of-New Orleans was proposed New Orleans civic organizations spluttered vehement objection. It was subsequently called St. Louis Woman, My Old Flame and several other things before Paramount chose Belle of the Nineties. Only two major changes-a hasty and unconvincing marriage at the conclusion and the removal of a sequence showing Mae West and John Miljan preparing to retire-were made before Censor Joseph Breen...
...shaky cabinet hastened "Gastounet," carrying with him all the sympathy and affection of the French people. Once again he used that affection to club politicians out of purely partisan stands. Calmly he ruled: "Tardieu was replying to calumnies of which he had been made the object. The vehement ardor with which he sought to defend himself led him to exceed the limits within which, in my opinion, he should have remained. . . . But I never thought ... he was acting with the premeditated purpose of putting in danger my truce and the appeasement Ministry in which Herriot and he had stood...
...vexed President Holt and other Floridans by behaving much as satiric, cacographic Dean Swift, on whose writings he is an authority, might have behaved at Rollins. Professor Rice attacked Rollins' debating and athletic systems, its fraternities and sororities, its chapel services, women teachers, in ''frequently vehement, sometimes intemperate, and in several instances discourteous language." Nonetheless he was agreed the A. A. U. P., "an unusually stimulating and effective teacher...