Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motored to Albany where the vice-presidential nominee told newshawks: "I'm here to see my boss-Governor Roosevelt-and get my orders for the campaign. When I get 'em, I'll carry 'em out like a good soldier." In Manhattan the Speaker declared: "I hear that I am considered a handicap to the ticket in the East. . . . For those of you who still have some property . . . please realize I am not going to take it away. I have some myself-a little...
...effect to the 7,000-word speech over which President Hoover had worked for weeks. "In accepting the great honor you have brought me." the President began in his plodding, somewhat mournful voice, "I desire to speak so simply and so plainly that every man and woman who may hear or read my words cannot misunderstand (Real applause). Hurricane. "The past three years have been a time of unparallelled economic calamity. . . . Before the storm broke we were steadily gaining in prosperity. . . . Being prosperous...
...recalled him from the Seville Hotel, in Manhattan, where he was a bellhop. Unable to think of anything for Harpo to say, she had him try some of his grandfather's tricks. When the Marxes were performing in Waukegan, Ill., they were surprised to hear, in the orchestra pit, the piano playing of their brother Chico. He had been touring the country as a piano player and wrestler. At Waukegan, Chico, Zeppo, Gummo and Groucho made their closest approach to an academic career in an act called "Fun in Hi-Skule." On the Sullivan-Considine circuit they toured with...
...Steel Foundries, President Lament well knows the highly competitive steel business. Un like his predecessors he will devote all his time to the Institute, will receive a large salary. Hitherto the Institute has played a passive role, gathering statis tics, urging standardized practices. Twice yearly its members convene to hear papers and, until his death, the scoldings (for price-cutting) of U. S. Steel's Judge Elbert Henry Gary. But with mills running at a fraction of capacity, steel companies have fought like jackals for what busi ness there was. Price-cutting, price-shading, concessions to favored customers, indirect...
...Conductor Sokoloff had been found wanting in social and civic ways. More important and evident, both to Conductor Sokoloff and the symphony's backers, were the facts the orchestra needed money and that more people in Cleveland would pay to see a newsworthy conductor than would pay to hear the best music consistently produced by the same conductor. Audiences have been bigger when guest conductors came to Cleveland, like Sir Hamilton Harty (who will guest conduct during Conductor Sokoloff's customary mid-season absence this year), Enrique Fernandez Arbos of Madrid, Bernardino Molinari of Rome, and Composers Igor...