Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer long Senator Nye and his committee raked and scraped material together. Nothing was too old, nothing too far-fetched to be of possible service. Fortnight ago public hearings began. Last March FORTUNE pointed out that, though the U. S. was far from innocent in the game of international armaments, U. S. munitions makers were very small fry indeed compared to such vast purveyors of war materials as France's Comité des Forges and Schneider-Creusot, Germany's Krupp, Britain's Vickers-Armstrong, Czechoslovakia's Skoda. First companies called before Senator Nye's committee...
...stuff of which practical politicians are made. Dropping the aloof dignity which is the badge of most legitimate pretenders, France's Henri, who is barred by law from his native land, rose up in Genoa to make what amounted to a fiery campaign speech. Down from Paris to hear him had gone hundreds of Camelots du Roi ("King's Henchmen"), the pick of French aristocracy. No sluggards, they do such chores in Paris as distributing the Royalist news paper, L' Action Française, drill secretly for service under "King Jean...
...seems quite certain that the men from New England who have enrolled in Professor Sprague's new, series of lectures expect to hear what they want to hear--that the government has taken the wrong step in its controlled inflation. But at the same time there can be no doubt but that the words of one so close to the affairs of that hectic week that followed on President Roosevelt's inauguration will be of much value to businessmen everywhere. He knows the inside story. Whether he will tell it is another thing...
Below Bari, on Italy's instep, is the naval base of Taranto. There 50,000 people were waiting for Il Duce to hear what he had to say next. He was still remembering Caesar...
Last week in the Hotel Peabody in Memphis, 500 hardwood lumbermen assembled in a hot session of their Institute to hear not their best customer but the lumbermen themselves attack price-fixing. More notable, the meeting was largely concerned with a single order? some 30,000,000 to 50,000,000 ft. of hardwood for Fisher bodies...