Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allred fulfilled his prophecy. In 1932 he was reelected. His career as Attorney General made news in Texas. For years Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. had succeeded in avoiding all efforts to raise its taxes because the county commissioners who assessed its property obligingly postponed hearings whenever the Attorney General came to protest, held the hearings when no protester was at hand. Night be fore a scheduled hearing, Allred drove to the neighborhood of the county seat, slept in his car, drove into town just as the hear ing opened in the morning, made himself heard...
Alabama's Bibb Graves got a law degree at Yale in 1896, but he has remained a man of the people. When he was Governor of Alabama from 1927 to 1931 he proposed installing public radio sets in every town so that Alabamans could hear music. He favors good old-fashioned political oratory and haberdashery, and by their means he induced Alabama to favor him with the first re-election given any of its Governors in 33 years. He did it by promising a referendum on State Repeal, promising tax exemption on homesteads up to $3,500 value, promising...
Extra police were called out to manage the crowds and more than 500 clamoring New Yorkers were turned from the doors. Inside Manhattan's Town Hall last week the most curious audience of the musical season had gathered to hear Hephzibah Menuhin, 15, play piano and violin sonatas with her prodigious brother Yehudi...
Paris and London had sent glowing reports of the second Menuhin prodigy, whose parents have kept her clear of the concert platform until this year (TIME, Dec. 10). But New Yorkers had to hear for themselves before they would believe that she had half the talent of her idolized brother. The youthful pair chose a program which would have taxed most grown-up musicians. They played Mozart's A Major Sonata (No. 42), Schumann's D Minor, Beethoven's Kreutzer. Hephzibah, a husky tow-head like Yehudi, wore a long peach-colored dress that did not advertise...
...walked into the White House, slapped down on President Roosevelt's desk a cotton textile agreement which, with modifications, became the first NRA code. When Mr. Sloan tried to resign as chairman of the Code Authority and president of the Textile Institute last summer, the industry would not hear of it. Fortnight ago the Institute re-elected him president. Last week, complaining of the "double load of important activities," he compromised by keeping his job with the Code Authority but resigning his job with the Institute. Goldthwaite H. Dorr, counsel of the Institute, assistant director of munitions during...