Word: loudnesses
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...daily and necessary steps taken to acquaint all classes of consumers with their rights under existing laws." To finance this and other marketing projects, the Grape Control Board had obtained from the Federal Farm Board a loan of $9,000,000. Chairman Legge of the Farm Board laughed long & loud at the suggestion that he, a Federal officer, was helping to promote a leak in the Prohibition law. But it did seem as if wine were about to return to the U. S. legally and on a large scale...
...dropping of Mr. Thomas meant the picking up of someone else. This someone's feathery little black moustache fairly quivered with excitement. When his election was announced the Conference burst into cheers and loud guffaws for Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley...
...over, he entered upon a series of experiments with National Broadcasting Co.'s head mechanics, commuted all summer between his Connecticut farm and Manhattan. The result is a device whereby he can do his own monitoring. He stands in a soundproof glass box, hears the music through a loud speaker. One hand guides the orchestra, the other the controls. In a first demonstration last week much of the color of a first hand performance was transmitted to Albeniz's Fête-Dieu à Séville, de Falla's Amor Brujo, Debussy's La Cath...
Married. Lawyer John Charles Straton, second son of the late loud Baptist Preacher John Roach Straton of Calvary Church in Manhattan (died a year ago, TIME, Nov. 11); and Helen Sanford, daughter of Lawyer Francis Baird Sanford of Warwick, N. Y.; by Preacher Hillyer Hawthorne Straton (Lawyer Straton's brother) at the Reformed Church in Warwick...
...tragedy, on Sept. 15, 1830, an ex-cabinet minister died at the inauguration of a then new-fangled mode of transportation: William Huskisson, the Duke of Wellington's Secretary of Colonies, bumped by the locomotive at the opening of one of Britain's first railroads (Liverpool & Manchester). Loud was the outcry then against "dangerous" railroads...