Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! All persons are commanded to keep silence on pain of imprisonment while the Senate of the United States is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives against Harold Louderback, judge of the district court of the northern district of California...
...rarest and highest constitutional duty before half-empty galleries. Even Senators had to be rounded up each morning and herded into the chamber to make up an impeachment court quorum. Directly before the dais was a table at which witnesses stood to give their testimony. Because Senators could not hear the witnesses' awed whispers, a gilded loudspeaker system was installed in the chamber for the first time in history. At one side of the dais was set a second oblong table behind which clustered the House managers, headed by Judiciary Chairman Sumners. who were prosecuting the charges...
...German goods in Britain, France, the U. S. is wrecking foreign trade. There has been talk of reapplying Sanctions under the Versailles Treaty, the reoccupation of the Rhine bridgeheads by French and British troops, of an economic blockade under the League of Nations. Hitler has summoned the Reichstag to hear a vital speech on Germany's foreign policy...
...able, technically, to demand the resignation of Chancellor Hitler) to which not Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath but Nazi Minister of the Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick was the third party. Now he had to write a speech that was not for Germany alone, but for the entire world to hear. Hours passed, the door remained locked. At 4 a. m. the tired secretary emerged to say that the first draft had been completed...
...demanded immediate action on disarmament. He was getting it because the Governments of Europe knew that the word they have been awaiting for the past 13 years was about to come from Washington. Delegates and spectators jammed the galleries of the League's palace in Geneva to hear the third world-speech of the week...