Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of fact, I am taking up this matter with the Musicians Union in Honolulu, and the American Federation of Musicians will hear more from this little...
Therefore last week the men in Geneva, the statesmen of 57 nations, had to build almost anew, or fail and leave their Conference a mockery. Up stood a go-getter, before the Conference was quite ready to hear him, and dynamically proposed to build anew. Said he in effect: the Conference had better scrap that confused wad of paper over which European statesmen have fought and contradicted each other for years, the so-called League of Nations Draft Convention for the Disarmament Conference. Instead, the go-getter, M. Andre Tardieu, proposed his plan, the plan of France...
...hear the Chamberlain speech announcing the new tariff many more members of Parliament than there are seats crowded into the House of Commons. Normally this causes no inconvenience, but last week, with the benches jammed, Honorable Members sat in the aisles, sat on the floor, hung over the balconies. Canon William Hartley Carnegie, who generally holds opening prayers in the House to rows of empty benches and a handful of earnest Christians, found 300 early M. P.'s eager to join him that after noon. Passes to the visitors' galleries were rare as rubies. In the peers' gallery barons, viscounts...
...hear talk of saving Japan's face. If China were a real power, Japan might have a 'face,' but China has not yet attained the rank of a power...
...concerts in the U. S. Soprano Lehmann is a heavy, Teutonic woman. Her program listed pure German Lieder. But people who tried to get in at the last minute were greeted by a big HOUSE SOLD OUT. Soprano Ljung-berg was one of many musicians who crowded in to hear Lehmann round out each song with marvelous warmth and eloquence...