Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...payment, I have no personal hesitation in saying that I do not characterize the resulting situation as a default.' " (Loud House of Commons cheers.) Speaking for himself. Chancellor Chamberlain wound up beaming, "I need only add that we propose to make this payment in silver [cries of 'Hear! Hear!']. . . ." Amid further cheering and compliments to President Roosevelt in which M. P.'s of every British party joined the House went home to bed. "The supreme merit of this arrangement," wisely observed the London Times, "is that it is neither default, which was unthinkable, nor payment...
Chancellor Dollfuss gave British sympathy for his brave fight against Naziism no chance to cool. Dr. Wasserback was transferred to London, where Britons could see him, hear him. Chancellor Dollfuss ended his opening address to the Conference with a quotation from Schiller: "The best man cannot live in peace if his wicked neighbors will not leave him in peace." Delegates cheered. To a U. S. reporter he added...
Though Korea was annexed by Japan 23 years ago, there are Koreans still ready to fight for their own country. In Manhattan's Mott St. last week young Chinese gathered round their Consul, respected Dr. Yih, to hear from Korean Dr. Kiusic Kimm, secretary of Tientsin's Peiyang College, what had become of $10,000,000 sent by Chinese and Korean residents of the U. S. to help China's heroic 19th Route Army battle the Japanese invaders of Shanghai (TIME...
...decentralized, with 127,000 old-fashioned local school boards doing business with taxpayers' money. There are 424,000 school board members, one for every two U. S. school teachers. That some are inefficient and others are dishonest is not surprising. But people everywhere were amazed last week to hear that Dickson City, coal-mining suburb of Scranton, Pa., has a schoolman who cannot read and can scarcely write...
...wife. Knox's star witness was gone but he got his old mistress back again. The remains of old Magowan, covered with a blanket, were carried in to division point where a testimonial dinner was to have been given him with speeches he had waited 60 years to hear...