Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warsaw, U. S. Envoy John Cudahy, in Riga, U. S. Envoy John Van A. Macmurray ticked off on their fingers the days to their departures. For a diplomatic pilgrimage was on, a pilgrimage of which the holy city was Washington, the temple the White House, its shrine the ear of Franklin Roosevelt...
Ahead of his homecoming colleagues, Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus had already landed in the U. S. And last week ahead of all of them in the study of President Roosevelt was Ambassador Jefferson Caffery who poured good news from Havana into the Presidential ear: Since the negotiation of the reciprocal trade agreement with Cuba (TIME, Sept. 3), business there had picked up, Cubans were pulling out of the Depression...
Thorburn, 47, Manhattan ear-throat-nose specialist, is more cocky about osteopathy. A doctor of medicine, he once declined the invitation of a medical school to establish a full course in osteopathy, because the medical school refused to require six years for the osteopathy course. To the Cleveland convention he promised lots of publicity for osteopaths: "What osteopathy requires is the presentation of proper information to newspapers and magazines, and otherwise, and one of the most important steps in securing this is a personal understanding of osteopathy on the part of editors of newspapers and magazines. When this same knowledge...
...Dimly we recall, or rather sense, a freer day when our forefathers had time to feel the seasons' change in them, to loaf in the warm sunlight and to drink in life like a healthy animal. . . . Our appetites have become too heavy, our inner ear too dulled to attend any call but that of ease or gain...
Early in the 1920's he got the ear of Harry Payne Whitney through his playboy son, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, who knew something about mining as well as water travel (see cut), canoed through Manitoba lakes and rivers to inspect the claims in person. Upshot was organization of Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting in 1927 with the Flin Flon claims and $17,500,000 in cash. Jack Hammell and his hungry prospectors had already been paid off on substantially their own terms...