Word: loudnesses
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...43rd thug-killing of the year. But the newsgatherers, camera men and police who soon congregated in the pedestrian tunnel were profoundly impressed, agitated, angry. For this corpse had not been a gangster, or a policeman, or a mere citizen. He was a Newspaper Reporter - Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, the loud and powerful Chicago Tribune's seasoned expert on Chicago crime, a man acquainted with under-worldlings from the meanest racetrack tipster to Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone himself, whom he visited for the Tribune winter before last at the Capone estate in Miami Beach, Fla. From the Tribune's tower...
...Fully as loud are the clamors of those who oppose the second possible development. They picture Harvard as a future real estate development with all the streets named "Main Street", all the suburban dwellers called "Babbits", all the students "brothers under the skin", and all the inmates of various, races, creeds, economic standing, social preeminence, intellectual interests and oddities--in fact all kinds and characters forced into one big family, which is supposed, unlike most families, to be free from dissension. The great cry is aimed at the supposed sacrifice of "individuality". This point of view is that...
...What would work for Australia and Ireland would not do, it was thought, for India. So a make-shift arrangement was knocked together to serve in the land of the Ganges. It did not work very well, everyone admits that, and the Nationalists are demanding with an ever more loud voice that India be granted her independence. So the Simon Commission has made an exhaustive examination of the entire Indian scene. Its published report gives a graphic account of the problem which India presents to her rulers, the second section which will appear June 24 will contain recommendations...
...colored units of their own instead of sprinkling them indiscriminately among white troops. Few, if any, protests were made against this military segregation. But the War Department's determination to segregate by race the Gold Star Mothers it is sending to France this year brought forth last week loud protest to President Hoover from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Fifty-five black mothers with sons buried in France declared they would not go on the free pilgrimage unless the President ordered the War Department to abolish segregation and allow them to travel along with white...
...Jersey as a candidate for the office of United States Senator. ... I am sensible of the great honor. ... If I am elected to the Senate, my only obligation will run to the voters of the State and my own conscience. . . . Tonight I am going to discuss Prohibition [loud applause]. It is a question which constantly confuses moral principles with the art of government. . . . "It is not my purpose to discuss the merits of Prohibition as a policy. That is not the issue. The issue is whether it is practicable and in the public interest to apply that policy...