Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover's soft-voiced pleas to purge the pension rolls fell on deaf ears at the Capitol. Special Congressional committees investigated only to report disagreement and deadlock. The National Economy League took the field in response to widespread sentiment against nonmilitary disability allowances. But the thumbscrew tactics of the veterans' lobbies blocked all legislative action...
Converse with 74-year-old Yukio Ozaki, former Mayor of Tokyo and member of the Diet since that body first met in 1890, is made difficult by the fact that he is nearly stone deaf. But there is nothing the matter with his foresight. Far clearer than most of his countrymen, he has seen which way Japan was heading. An unyielding pacifist, he has campaigned for world disarmament since...
...spaniel was one of the best known dogs in the country, certainly the most famous in Cambridge, and has been commemorated in many magazines, as well as in recent books on Harvard. Phantom was stone deaf, and as such was the butt of many jokes...
North Dakota's 48 State Senators meeting in a Bismarck auditorium- rose and cheered deaf 83-year-old Senator William Martin last week when for the first time since the Civil War Secession was publicly proposed in a State Legislature. Senator Martin's resolution would leave in the Union only the New England States, New York. New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Next day the North Dakota Senate voted. 28-to-20, to publish his resolution in the Senate Journal. Cried Senator Bonzer: "This is a message to the East that North Dakota be recognized and have a place...
Cried he: "The house of Morgan is the undisputed kingfish of the banking situation!" The galleries tittered but Senator Glass, deaf to the long outpourings, did not look up from the book he was reading. Sticking fairly close to his subject the Louisianian rambled...