Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impeachment. He started to campaign with $12 in his pocket. Leaving Mrs. Murray $1 for emergencies he travelled up and down Oklahoma haranguing the plain people to get behind him. He went up the creeks and through the swamps. He hitchhiked from town to town. Crowds turned out to hear his mastery of abuse and invective. He lived mostly on cheese and crackers. He was ridiculed and scorned but he beat a millionaire oil man in the Democratic primary and won the election by the largest majority in Oklahoma history. His whole campaign cost less than...
...Went into secret session to hear anonymous charges against Ira M. Ornburn, nominated to be a member of the Tariff Commission; confirmed...
...Istanbul 20,000 people shuffled into the great Byzantine Mosque of Santa Sophia on Ramadan's "Night of Power" to hear the first reading of the Koran, not in Arabic language of Mohammed, but in vulgar Turkish. The blood of the pious curdled. Many of the gaping crowd flouted tradition by wearing shoes. Photographers added to the sacrilege by setting off flashes. Although the Koran was for the first time intelligible to laymen, most of the crowd seemed under the impression that they were seeing a theatrical spectacle...
...Seven of the Geneva Conference? finished making their initial proposals last week. Having done so, statesmen of the Big Seven showed extreme disinclination to hear the proposals of 50 in ore nations. Thus some of them did not hear what the people of the United States of Brazil, which is in desperate financial straits, have paid handsomely to have said for them in Geneva...
...fought a war of aggression and one was fighting such a war last week; but they successfully ignored the United States of Brazil, which is larger than the 48 United States. Suddenly the Chinese Delegation asked (and were refused) permission to set up loudspeakers and let the Conference hear a broadcast of Japanese battleships bombarding Shanghai. Thus China, the most populous country in the world was rebuffed. And of the Big Seven themselves least attention was paid to Russia, largest country in the world...