Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contribution to the clarification of current thinking on economic questions is most heartily to be welcomed. It is, for instance, refreshing to hear some one deal with the subject of purchasing power without falling into the loose talk so characteristic of newspaper and magazine articles and political speeches. Professor Chamberlin yet the government itself is anxious that business shall be reassured, that capital shall have a chance to earn a fair return and that the volume of transactions may increase and more people shall be employed...
...left to the citizens of Atlanta, whither Man of the Year Johnson went on his Southern speaking tour, to hear him in tip-top forensic form...
Conference sessions at Montevideo promptly became a peace festival. To keep the record straight the Conference voted congratulations to the League Commission but to hear the delegates talk they sounded like peacemakers. "If we can make peace between Bolivia and Paraguay," said U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, "this will be the greatest Conference of all time...
...Seabury that "General" Farley had visited James John ("Jimmy") Walker* whom the Seabury investigation had driven discredited from City Hall into exile. Inquisitor Seabury flared: "It was not an edifying sight to see the Postmaster General of the United States make a pilgrimage to meet Mr. Walker and to hear that he had eulogized him in Paris. Take this as you like it. I think it was a disgusting spectacle." In Manhattan after a European trip. Novelist Charles Oilman Norris gleefully commented on the absence of U. S. tourists in France: "I am certainly tickled to death to see that...
...gave Insull at least $50,000 to invest for them. Each year he would tell them how much paper profit he had made them. One year he said their profit was $500,000 - 100% on their investment. Rosa Raisa wanted to cash in then & there but Insull would not hear of it. The stock was not delivered to them until after the crash and then with the stipulation that it must not be sold. After they refused to buy more Insull stock, she said last week, both she and her husband were banned from the opera company and "life...