Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Congress convenes and the week it adjourns. Last week Franklin Roosevelt had three messages to Congress to prepare. On the evening of the official Cabinet dinner at the White House-after midnight when the guests had departed- his wife and his secretaries joined him in his study to hear the final rehearsal of his message on the State of the Union...
...regents, found President Frank remiss and inefficient, President Frank found Governor La Follette sordidly partisan, politically biased, dangerously dictatorial. ''Certain forces in Wisconsin" he rebutted, "want a Fascist kind of university administration.'' Patiently diagramming educational statistics which the fidgeting regents did not want to hear, he defended his decade's record at Wisconsin, cited higher enrollments, higher average graduate accomplishments in the professions. His newspaper writing, said Glenn Frank, occupied only three hours a week and forced him to broaden his reading: speaking outside the State, once a month on the average, brought invaluable contacts...
Maude Royden gave up her Guildhouse pulpit for good last month, planning to devote all her time in future to preaching Peace. She is no stranger to the U. S. Upon her second arrival, in 1927, many a non-religious person went to hear her talk largely because bluenoses had cackled that she smokes an occasional cigaret. Last week ship newshawks did not bother to ask her about smoking. Said...
David Mannes first came into the Metropolitan Museum to conduct promenade music for receptions. When, in 1918, Director Edward Robinson asked him to give a concert for soldiers & sailors, the Mannes Concerts began. Only 781 people went to hear him. He then got his musicians from the New York Symphony, now gets them from the Philharmonic and other orchestras, pays them regular union rates...
...started when a trio of students worn out with the reading period and exhilarated by a bottle of 15-year-old Scotch, so our anonymous source reports, decided to phone in to the station. "This is Roger Merriman of Cambridge," said one of them, "and I'd like to hear "I Don't want to Make History...