Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There were galleries, there were dealers, there were magazines increasingly eager to preach the American renaissance. But a Museum, a repository of the Muses, that was lacking. Last week about a thousand guests, carefully handpicked, assembled in a handsomely remodeled building on 8th Street (Greenwich Village) to hear a curious assortment of New Yorkers-Alfred Emanuel Smith, Congressman Robert Low Bacon, Subsidizer Otto Hermann Kahn, Sentimentalist Christopher Morley, Donor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney-speak over a nationwide radio hookup to dedicate the Whitney Museum of American Art. Herbert Clark Hoover did not come but even he sent a message...
...Riekle and Lawrence Gillison-his old Army rifle. He proposed a hunt. The three took out hunting licenses, set off in an automobile. At Palisades Interstate Park, a State game preserve, they entered the woods, proceeded afoot till they came to a wire enclosure. Inside the enclosure they could hear a pounding of hoofs. Presently, galloping along the barrier came a large animal with horns. Cried Paul Riekle and Lawrence Gillison: "Let him have it, quick!" Hunter Gianerone pointed his Army rifle through the wire, shot the animal dead...
...current expenses, were in the Braxton Bank. The bank closed; all the money was lost temporarily, some of it perhaps permanently. Wrote Principal Jones last week: "Our Southern white friends have no money but are helping us out with provisions and other necessities until we can hear from our friends up North...
...because Busch speaks almost no Italian, Toscanini almost no German. But they spend a great deal of time gazing at one another in affectionate admiration. When the Philharmonic toured Europe a year ago last spring, Busch attended almost all the concerts. Toscanini has traveled from Switzerland to Milan to hear Busch's famed string quartet...
...power and threat of Katanga. A year ago in Manhattan the copper world agreed to reduce output 33% of capacity. At that time Katanga was supposedly operating at about 12,500 tons a month. Amazed were U. S. producers some weeks later when the agreement went into effect, to hear from Katanga that it was curtailing on the basis of about 16,600 tons monthly. In fact, announced the Belgians, their output had actually run as high as 20,000 tons! Other coppermen shook their heads, said harsh things about Katanga's stepping up production just before curtailment...