Word: loudnesses
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...Prohibition is bad because- ." The arguments presented were by no means fresh. Virginia's Congressman Montague, a Dry committee member, dozed off into restful slumber, so weary was he with hearing the same old facts used to damn the 18th Amendment. When handclapping in the audience became very loud, Dry Representative Yates of Illinois remarked: "I object to this noise. If we are to have a town meeting here I will withdraw." When nobody seemed to care whether he left or not, he decided to stay...
...that if he goes too far copies des tined for subscribers in Italy will be .quietly destroyed by Il Duce's police. Newest thing in Italian journalism is a 16-page tabloid sheetlet published in a secret place, written by persons unknown, furtively distributed throughout Rome. Its name : Loud Speaker. Its object : to attack Dictator Benito Mussolini with humor, malice, intimate information, startling lies, as he has seldom before been attacked. Fascist officials have sharp orders to apprehend and silence Loud Speaker's perpetrators without delay or mercy, for ridicule is the one weapon no dictatorship can long...
There is no doubt that something will have to be done about it before long. Ever since Prof. Rogers of Tech advised all young men of intelligence to be snobs and followed that up with other advice and statements which caused loud protests and gave him more than his fair share of the front page space on Monday mornings, the number of Harvard professors who are actually neglecting their boys in order to arrange tours in the interest of popular education for the masses has steadily increased...
...TIME, Jan. 6 et seq.), when some 200 Congressmen on the floor suddenly threw their heads back, clapped their knees, laughed uproariously. In silence they had heard the Coast Guard accused of "bloody murder." Loud had been their applause when speakers defended the service and its law-enforcing methods. But what now struck them as funny was an explanation of why Coast Guardsmen drink the liquor they seize in the service of their country. The explainer was Representative Car roll L. Beedy of Maine, a consistent dry upon whose bald head Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, the Coast Guard...
...Schacht's arrival was immediately marked by a loud announcement that as Reichsbank head he would not support the establishment of a bank of International Settlements as planned. His chief reason : The Original Young Plan had been tampered with to the detriment of Germany. Then startlingly, after a series of meetings, the leading conferees, including the Germans, not only ignored Dr. Schacht's eruption as unofficial, but reached an agreement that any moratorium must be concluded before another is granted, that Germany would make payments on the fifteenth of each month as asked by the Allies...