Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: What's this I hear about your being on the air only one night a week? The half hour part is fine, but the once-a-week part takes a lot of joy out of life. If you only knew what a body blow it is to lose this splendid program...
Startled therefore was many a citizen last week to hear that a onetime Justice of the Supreme Court had, at San Diego, Calif., publicly declared his confidence in 1) the Supreme Court, 2) the New Deal. It was John Hessin Clarke, now 79, still very much of his own opinion. Said he : "I can't bring myself to regard seriously the action of declaring a few Acts unconstitutional. The Dred Scott decision was reversed by the Civil War; the legal tender decision was reversed by the Court itself, and the income tax was declared unconstitutional in a five...
...mechanicaly recited by members of its staff. They said they had brought morning tea to Mr. Simpson and a woman who was not Mrs. Simpson but was with him in a double bed. There must be no provable collusion in an English divorce case and judges usually demand to hear in court the name of the "other woman" or corespondent. This had not been mentioned when Mrs. Simpson's lawyer asked the Court to grant the decree nisi of divorce,* and a fateful pause ensued. Mr. Justice Hawke was sitting hunched over his desk dangling his handkerchief before...
There is only one piece of news about China which the remainder of the world would be much interested to hear: that China had at last stiffened her backbone and was going to fight Japan. In the past six months the Japanese Government has shown a marked tendency to modify its truculence, and in the past two months the Chinese Government has begun to show itself astonishingly bolder. Drastic censorship in both Tokyo and Nanking has delayed and blurred this greatest Far East news story. By last week, however, it seemed clear that the present which her bantamweight Premier & Generalissimo...
...hear us cheering? The crowd is with...