Word: outburst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Gates Dawes rushed into the vice presidency on March 4, 1925, with a crackling, headline-snatching lecture to the Senate on its antiquated rules of procedure. Calvin Coolidge grew red in the face as he listened to that outburst...
Into Congress last week overflowed the financial argument between Federal Reserve Board and Wall Street (TIME, Feb. 18). A mingled outburst of oratory, ethics, provincialism and a little economics was the result. The prevailing sentiment was strongly against the speculator. Since, however, the very Senators and Representatives who were most inclined to view Wall Street as the heart of the money octopus also regarded the Federal Reserve System as at least a tentacle of the same monster, the banker was scolded while the broker was flayed...
...Work did not reply. Instead, he approved an outburst by his publicity chief, onetime (1919-23) Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas. The latter referred to the Raskob letter as "another screed expressing . . . mock indignation"; accused Mr. Raskob of "deliberately dragging in the issues of religious intolerance...
...Norris had come out for Nominee Smith (see p. 16). The cheering on the appearance of the Happy Warrior was the peak of the New England trip, perhaps the peak of his campaign. When it was stilled, Mrs. Sayre quoted what Woodrow Wilson said of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Another outburst. Then the Nominee spoke: ". . . We shall use words to convey our meaning?if the orators in the gallery will only just subside shall use words to convey our meaning, not to hide...
...campaign enthusiasm. Even the Democratic party of yore would find it hard to sanction such a magnificent conception of neutrality and the "kept us out of war" policy. Here at Harvard where the dry rot of indifference has left untouched a flourishing forest of undergraduate political interest, such an outburst of nalvole would have been the signal for indignant letters in numbers such as to clog the columns of the CRIMSON from now until election day. Admiration is due the courageous decision of the Yale debating team to keep desperately on without betraying a sign of the fox gnawing...