Word: holler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cateymount wasn't making enough trouble, a-hollering outside like a woman at night, the school board at Vanceburg, in Kentucky's Lewis County, ordered Joseph Johnson to send his three children back to school. Johnson, a stern 65-year-old man of the hills, just did not believe the school board understood the situation. His three sons had to walk along a branch and down a holler and did not get home until after dark. He sent his 26-year-old son, Orville, to town on muleback to explain about the wildcat...
Said one WPBster bluntly: "I don't see where the West Coast's holler about V-E day comes in. It will keep slightly more war contracts, but with a pretty good shake on reconversion its position ought to be pretty good. But some Eastern cities where the bulk of the contracts will be canceled at once will be up against it. They'd be only too glad to have some of that West Coast war production...
...Merrily We Roll Along." In the Senate chamber, while the organist struck up Merrily We Roll Along, the anti-Fourth Termers settled down to business with a whoop & a holler. Without debate, they rushed through resolutions demanding that the Democratic national convention: 1) seat their delegates; 2) restore the old two-thirds rule; 3) go on record for white supremacy. All three resolutions had a powerful snapper: should the Democratic national convention refuse these Texas demands, then Texas' 23 electors will not consider themselves bound to vote for the Democratic Presidential nominee...
...votes in New Hampshire, Tom Dewey now apparently had plucked off 25 votes without seeming effort. With a neat bit of stagecraft timing, Joe Hanley, Dewey's faithful Lieutenant Governor, turned up in North Carolina to keynote the state's Republican convention. Forthwith, delegates with whoop & holler voted unanimously to "draft" New York's cagey Governor...
...truckers now forced to get along without them. To buy the cars and trucks, Chevrolet estimated that the well-heeled U.S. civilian will have $100,000,000,000 in savings. All this looked too good to be true, even to Chevie's top-optimist, Sales Manager William E. Holler. Said he: "It is perhaps wise to dis count somewhat the conclusions which the figures appear to warrant...