Word: loudnesses
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Dining and drinking in Sydney restaurants, moneyed New South Walesmen leaped up with loud hurrahs last week at sudden news that His Majesty's Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game, had forced out of office their notorious State Premier, tall, square-jawed John Thomas Lang, famed for repudiating more than $3,500,000 of interest due on the State debt...
...With a loud crack the ring on the starboard cable broke. The Akron rolled to port like a porpoise. As the ship lurched, 100 sailors in the port ground crew dragged with all their might. Some even climbed up the grab lines the better to hold down the bouncing ship.* A sudden blast of air drove the ship up, jerked the crew into the air. Most of them dropped off, sprawled in a heap on the ground. One plunked down 20 ft., fractured his arm. But soaring rapidly the Akron jerked three sailors so high that they dared...
Small, weak but exceedingly loud bombs were hurled at the Bank of Japan, the Mitsubishi Bank, the residence of Emperor Hirohito's Grand Chamberlain Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, the Central Police Station opposite the Cherry Village Gate of the Imperial Palace. At the gate a Japanese reporter fell with a bullet in his foot. Other bombs were thrown at the residence of Count Nobuaki Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and a con stant adviser to young Emperor Hirohito...
...Long, now Louisiana's loud Senator (TIME, May 16 et ante) contributed: "I believe that this was one of the buildings for whose construction I was charged with the larceny of about a million dollars. As a matter of fact, the architect's estimate kept going up and I had to 'take' about two millions."- He promised ex officio that "there is not going to be anything but friendly relations between the medical schools of Tulane and L. S. U. . . . The Governor . . . sits on the boards of both institutions...
...Loud, colorful Banker Fleishhacker has been far from alone in resisting Depression on the Pacific Coast. Bankers generally agree that the California banking situation has remained about the best in the land, a remarkable feat considering the State's large investments in agriculture. In Northern California there has been only one bank failure since Jan. 1 and that was in a small town after the principal industry had moved away. In Southern California there have been 15 failures in 1932. Bankers in Northern California agree that in the past three months the banking scare has cleared up. Deposits have...