Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord, what things come out of men's mouths! I hear one man compare the Oath Bill to a law compelling him to be faithful to his wife (in which case he wouldn't, says he)! Another talks of free love; another says the bill is like a law compelling his heart "to leap up at a rainbow in the sky"; another asks the American Legion how it would like all its members required to be examined for communicable diseases! To which there were many objections and many cheers...
...notable audience when he stepped up to the microphone. Some Columbia patrons were disappointed, however. In Boston it was announced in advance that seven New England stations affiliated with the system would substitute a program of dance music for the Red secretary's speech, though their listeners would hear Representative Fish's reply to it next evening. Most Pacific Coast stations also refused to broadcast the speech...
...little businessmen arrived in Washington last week just in time to hear another piece of news sweet to the ears. After more than two years of hearings in various cities of the land, the Federal Trade Commission ordered Goodyear Tire & Rubber to cease and desist from granting special favors to Sears, Roebuck & Co. in return for the privilege of making the tires that Sears sells under its own brand names. This mail-order business has often accounted for 10% of Goodyear's total sales...
...President of the U. S., the German mathematician now chuckles, gestures, jokes, smokes in public with considerable self-assurance. Last May Dr. Einstein made the short journey from Princeton to Philadelphia to receive the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute. A throng of scientists and dignitaries was assembled to hear what the medalist had to say. Einstein genially informed the chairman that he had nothing to say, that inspiration which he had awaited until the last moment had failed him. The chairman, much more embarrassed than the medalist, conveyed this information to the audience...
...Symphony Hall next Monday evening and Tuesday afternoon to give a pair of concerts with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society. As has been announced, this is to be the famous maestro's final season in America, and consequently it will be the last opportunity Bostonians will have to hear him. The programs are likely to be exceedingly popular, for they contain the great masterpieces of symphonic literature, which, with Toscanini's incomparable approach, will be anything but hackneyed. That of Monday evening consists of Weber's Overture to "Der Freischutz," Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, Brahms' Variations on a Theme...