Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their first rally at Brooks House last night approximately 100 Roosevelt Club members turned up to hear addresses by Congress an Robert Russell '14, John W. Newman, Boston Democratic committees and Edward F. Richard, Jr. 2L. All three confined themselves to remarking on campaign situations, nations or local...
...process of painfully rehabilitating himself to a silent world he could never again see, he traveled through Europe and the Orient. Today he appears before the microphones of radio stations KFAB and KOIL, Omaha, Neb., twice daily to interpret international affairs, though he cannot see to read or hear his voice. He keeps abreast of the news by reading with one finger the lips of his secretary. On the air he talks from Braille notes, speaks clearly and without hesitation, and stops when his fifteen minutes are up by feeling the hands of a glassless watch...
Returning last week to Manhattan from a trip to her native Austria, Harpsichordist Yella Pessl had good news for those music lovers who like to hear 17th and 18th Century works on the instruments for which they were written. On its way from Munich was a fine new harpsichord, made by Karl Maendler, famed for his work with archaic instruments, on which she will record some more Bach, Händel, Purcell, old German Christmas songs for Columbia this week. Herr Maendler's aim in constructing from old Viennese cherry-wood this super-harpsichord was to eliminate the twangling...
...hilly, grimy stronghold of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and of their aggressive labor unionism are the rich bituminous coal fields of Alabama's Walker County. Last month Walker County's miners came home to hear shocking news from their children's mouths. Three of the county's schoolteachers, who had been organizing their 375 colleagues into a Teachers' Association and were trying to pet an A. F. of L. charter, had been fired for "incompetence, outside activity." To this familiar gesture, the miners made a familiar answer. Last week Walker County...
...hand on Hobart's rolling Geneva campus were students, alumni, educators, to hear Hobart's 18th President solemnly inducted by Princeton's 15th President Harold Willis Dodds, like him the son of a Presbyterian minister. Still in oratorical trim after welcoming Princeton's freshmen two days before, President Dodds took the occasion to declare: "The people love liberty . . . but they put ham and cabbage first, If they can't get them under democracy, they will trans fer their affections and their spiritual val ues to other systems. The blunt fact is that our democracy must...