Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franco sent off diplomatic notes to the Great Powers, announced that he may at any time bombard Barcelona to check the entry of Soviet arms and munitions at that port. In the House of Commons, amid chanting of "Shame! Shame! Shame!" by Laborites, the Conservative and Liberal majority roared "Hear! Hear!" as Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden reacted to the Franco note thus...
...General Education Board; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who gave it nearly $5,000,000 in PWA grants for buildings and turned up last October to dedicate its new chemistry building; Eleanor Roosevelt, who has dropped in at Howard faculty meetings. Last week Howard's friends were shocked to hear that its 1,950 blackamoor students were to a man out on strike...
What lawyers hear in their law offices, doctors in their consulting rooms, priests in their confessionals, they need not disclose in courts of law. Newshawks try to preserve a similar code, and sometimes go to jail for doing so, for only in four States-Maryland, New Jersey, Alabama, California-does the law specifically allow newshawks the right of concealing their news sources. Three weeks ago when Arkansas voters went to the polls they were asked to vote on a proposal to revise the State's criminal code to give newshawks immunity. The count was slow coming...
...achieved. His First Symphony, in 1897, fell so flat that he needed a hypnotist to restore his nerve. His Second, in 1908, fared better, was praised for its rich, Slavic melodies, but is seldom played. Last week more than 2,800 people packed into Carnegie Hall to hear the Philadelphia Orchestra play his Third for the first time in Manhattan...
...against the Sugar Institute in 1934 stands as a weighty legal precedent in the interpretation of "fair trade practice." On the morning of Armistice Day last week Judge Mack sat down in the big, airy room of the new Federal District Court in Manhattan's Foley Square to hear arguments in another great test case, this one brought by the Securities & Exchange Commission against the world's biggest electric utility holding company, Electric Bond & Share...