Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day at Athens, Ga., accepting an honorary LL.D. from the University of Georgia, Franklin Roosevelt eschewed politics except to say that Georgia "really does not believe either in demagoguery or feudalism dressed up in Democratic clothes." He saved his full thunder-blast for that afternoon at Barnesville, Ga., where he was to throw the switch on a new REA project. Barnesville's population of 3,000 swelled to 30,000 to hear him. On the speakers' platform at his side were Senator George and Candidate Camp. When Franklin Roosevelt began to speak, all present recognized a significant...
Chicago hopes to steal New York's thunder through a rule limiting futures trading to hides not more than one year old (the younger a hide is, the better most manufacturers like it). In New York, trading in five-year-old hides is permitted. Effect of Chicago's restrictions was evident in last week's prices. Sample: September hides in Chicago were 8.79? a lb., in New York 8.58?. These prices are only about half what hides were bringing last year, for consumption of tanned leather was off 25% in the first four months this year. Despite...
...Bitter Economist Michel Alphendery, a communist sympathizer, who says of his job: "We're riders of the storm: all of us together with him in this phantom bank, built on misery, shining out of mire, solid in an earthquake, soundproof in thunder, a living lightning conductor: an accident in capitalism...
...hanging from the runaway and pulled it to earth, not before, however, a prankster held a lighted match to the balloon's capacious belly. Members of the House were startled to see a large orange flame a la Hindenburg appear in mid-air accompanied by a small peal of thunder...
...thunder follows lightning, so grumbling follows the annual award of the Pulitzer Prizes. This year's controversy centred around the placid, bespectacled head of Arthur Krock, chief of the New York Times Washington bureau, whose exclusive, authorized interview with President Roosevelt in February 1937-the only one given in five years-won him the $500 prize for distinguished Washington correspondence...