Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minneapolis. Fifteen thousand people swarmed into the Minneapolis Auditorium to hear General Johnson warm up by denouncing "chiselers" and "old guard lookout men." "These are rugged individualists who want to continue to live in the dark ages of human relationships. . . . I'm not going to let them fool the American people. . . . Racketeering is a harsh word. We do not mind it when applied to Al Capone, but these gentlemen do not like to hear it applied to what a Senate committee has disclosed about certain great New York fiduciaries. Why. the truth is, in the light of these developments...
...description of the first U. S. bee, which he sponsored in 1923 to make cornhusking an art instead of drudgery. Des Moines is Secretary Wallace's home town. Before becoming a Cabinet official he edited Wallace's Farmer there, Iowans turned out 10,000 strong to hear their native son speak in the Coliseum. He declared that the Government's corn-hog loan program would increase farm income, that farm prices would be inflated by the President's new gold policy and by the upping of industrial wages under the NRA. But he conceded that such...
...Chancellor's last speech of the campaign was shouted from atop a dynamo in Berlin's vast Siemens & Halske electric works. To hear him by radio all German factory workers stopped work for one hour. This time-out the workers had to make up later by working an hour overtime without extra pay. "German workmen!" shouted Orator Hitler. "International conflicts are fomented by a small group of international gypsies...
...Yorkers who went to Town Hall Monday night thought for a moment that they were being fooled. Programs told them that they would hear a Bach Prelude, the Chromatic Fantasio and Fugue, Beethoven's Pathétique sonata, Mendelssohn's Rondo Capricioso, six Chopin pieces. On the stage was a grand piano with a man-sized keyboard and to play it there appeared a chubby little girl who, if she had not been so self-possessed, would have looked as if she had wandered there by mistake on the way home from a children's party...
...Senators had yet beheld. Spare, white-haired, slightly deaf Arthur William Cutten sat with his hand cupped behind his ear throughout most of the long interrogation on the great Sinclair Consolidated Oil pool of 1928-29. Unsmiling he peered through his spectacles at Inquisitor Pecora whom he could not hear half the time and who could hear Mr. Cutten's muffled replies less often than that...