Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sound & fury had died down, historians quietly pointed out that the Nye charge was: 1) old stuff, having been discussed in print since 1922; 2) quite probably true, in the judgment of competent scholars. Last week chastened Chairman Nye asked the Senate for $7,369 to let his committee hear out Banker J. P. Morgan & friends, pay off its employes, print its record. Not a single Senator opposed this graceful fadeout. Senator Connally temperately limited himself to declaiming: "The burglar who breaks into a house at night doesn't believe in private rights or security. The jackal...
...sorry for him; they put him on a tough spot. He did the best he knew how, but it was no answer. As I said in my speech . . . there is only one man who should try to answer me. . . .* I was an 'Unhappy Warrior' to hear him read off a speech over which he stumbled so that I felt sure it was canned and did not come from the heart of the Joe Robinson that I have known." Borah in Brooklyn. Meanwhile in Brooklyn, a Republican performer who has for years been packing the U. S. Senate...
Thus the atmosphere was tense and dramatic last week when the General Assembly of the Bank of France met with its 15 regents to hear the annual report of Governor Jean Samson Tannery. The Governor was appointed just 13 months ago by then Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, who instructed him to "loosen up credit" in France and resort to various pump-priming devices. Into the Bank of France swept Jean Samson Tannery, ordered removed the heavy double cur tains favored by his gloom-loving predecessors and installed cheerful, high-power indirect lighting. But that was about all. The regents...
Rose Marie (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is based on the sound assumption that cinemaudiences will pay little attention to plot and trimmings if they can hear Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in full voice. To this end, Rose Marie producers resurrected the highly successful operetta of 1924, added some new songs, framed it in magnificent scenery, let the two leads shift for themselves. Acting with considerable charm, and bursting frequently into song in the midst of Canadian wilds, Miss MacDonald and Mr. Eddy should provoke an even greater box-office triumph than by their first effort, Naughty Marietta. Marie de Flor...
...showed a gift for painful bluntness by declaring that 1) teaching is a profession commonly chosen by persons with inferiority complexes, and 2) City College students lack social graces. Antagonism to Dr. Robinson bubbled over last week when some 700 alumni surged into a City College auditorium to hear a committee which has been investigating the college administration. A majority report, signed by twelve members, charged that the president "lacks the human qualities necessary to achieve the widespread confidence of his faculty and his student body and to provide genuinely inspired, resourceful and socially imaginative leadership." Four committeemen supported...