Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent an interesting but uncomfortable and. at times, hair-raising three weeks in our hegira. As we crossed Siberia we began to hear more about the elusive guerrilla commander of the White Russians, General Semenov (pronounced Sem-yon-off). At Irkutsk, while our train was delayed for a fews hours, I hired a scared izvoztchik (cabby) to drive me around the downtown part of the city. Fresh shell scars on the public buildings and a great pit in the public square containing several hundred lime-covered bodies were mute evidences of a recent raid by Semenov. Farther east our train...
When a motion was made to print Professor Davis' speech of welcome, Delegate James A. Meade of Chicago rose to shout: "I for one refuse to sit here and hear the president misrepresent the great body of American teachers. The rank and file don't want that kind of stuff. We're for the A. F. of L. regardless of what you want to do. You represent the C. P. but I don't know whether that stands for 'college professors' or 'Communist Party'." This gibe was greeted by a storm...
Classes "We hear of the gentlemen of title who, on occasion, came to the Colonies, and we hear of the gentlemen of wealth who helped to fit out the expeditions. But it is a simple fact . . . that an overwhelming majority of those who came to the Colonies . . . belonged to what our British cousins would, even today, call 'the lower middle classes...
...grand finale to Italy's summer war games in Sicily, was evidently intended to be a curtain raiser for new developments in Italian foreign policy. Throughout the Fascist Empire 43,000,000 Italians, obedient to orders of the Fascist Grand Council, stopped work, streamed into public squares to hear broadcast their master's voice. A squad of interpreters scribbled furiously to translate the speech into 18 languages for the benefit of the world at large...
Once Mexicans went to church on Sunday. Now they parade the streets, cheer speeches by their labor leaders. One fine Sunday recently, 25,000 CTMists (Confederation of Mexican Workers) assembled before the National Palace in the capital to hear their labor boss, large-eared, dapper Vincente Lombardo Toledano, CTM Secretary General. Shouting, waving his arms, Orator Toledano hurled imprecations at the enemies of labor. The Mexicanos were enthusiastic, but not enough to suit Toledano. Dramatically pausing, the fiery-eyed labor leader leaned forward on the rostrum to grip his listeners once more. He was going to tell them something...