Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connally, another Presidential Plan antagonist, planned one without the stagger. Most significant converts were two Judiciary Committeemen, Kentucky's Logan and New Mexico's Hatch, who had been leaning reluctantly toward the President's Plan. Senator Hatch, who postponed private engagements in order to hear Dean Smith out, announced after the hearing that he was ready to go whole hog for the Smith plan. Senator Logan surrendered before the hearing ended. Raising a last objection that rich and powerful conservatives might defeat the Smith amendment, he grinned with relief when the Dean declared: "Those same people could...
...word that no Italian likes to hear is "Caporetto," the name of the Alpine village where in 1917 the Italian army broke and ran in the most ignominious rout of the War. Italians heard that word many times last week as fact after fact emerged to show that the defeat of the Italian legions was overwhelming, catastrophic, perhaps un piccolo Caporetto ("a little Caporetto"). Air fighters on both sides are now so good that daylight bombing of important centres is considered too risky. Madrid has not been daylight-bombed for two months. In Salamanca even veteran Hearst Correspondent Karl...
...Stradivarius Quartet, certainly one of the finest string groups in America, is to give a concert in Fogg this evening at 8 p.m. This is an excellent opportunity to hear chamber music well played and the occasion should not be missed...
With French President & Mme Albert Lebrun, last week French Premier & Mme Leon Blum went one evening to Paris' now splendidly refurnished Opera to hear a concert by the London Philharmonic. As fiddles sighed and flutes tootled, there began to be furtive activity in the rear of the Presidential Box. Just in case of another French Revolution, it is equipped as a telephonic nerve centre, attuned not only to Paris but to prefectures of all France, and that night last week trouble was already brewing hot in Clichy...
Pauly was to leave this week for Prague. At the Coronation she will' hear Artur Rodzinski conduct again. Critics who heaped praise on Soprano Pauly last week did not forget Conductor Rodzinski whose eloquent musicianship made Elektra one of the great triumphs of the season. An other honor came to Rodzinski two days later when Ambassador Jerzy Potocki pinned on him the Polonia Restituta, Poland's highest order of merit...