Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...listeners were able to hear the little man in his first radio broadcast last week.* Several radio stations claimed credit for the hookup. It was due to the enterprise of Newark's WOR alone. At the appointed time St. Gandhi refused to be hustled from his dates and milk; his flustered hostess, Miss Muriel Lester of Kingsley House, was forced to ad lib for many minutes. At length the Mahatma approached the microphone, prayed for a few moments silently. Then millions of U. S. listeners heard his first words: "Do I have to speak into this thing...
...unfortunate statement," bitterly remarked New York City's Department of Hospitals. New York hospitals and clinics have been overcrowded with 25% more patients than normal during full employment times. The staffs hear of people who "cannot afford to be sick," who defer treatment, operations. For the municipal hospitals alone the budget requires $25,326,000, an enforced increase over last year of $5,800,000. Surgeon-General Cummings' report, complained the New Yorkers, "excludes epidemics and, covering only 13 unmentioned States, deals only in mortalities...
...whimsical turn and have ever pumped an oldtime church organ, you probably belong to The Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers (TIME, May 25). If you go to church you may know your parish organist. Many a person goes to cinemas partly to hear the tremolos and chime-effects of the neighborhood Wurlitzer. But most people belong to none of these classes, are vague about the position of organists in the musical world, unaware of their interests, their problems...
...quiet had been the Esa's take-off that New York was startled to hear it was so near. But storms were still raging up & down the coast. Airports turned on beacons; anxious German, Danish and Portuguese consuls waited, wondered...
...Representatives until they passed from self-consciousness to selfimportance. But Secretary Hurley's visit, they were assured, was different from all these, because no less a person than President Hoover had dispatched his War Chief to their islands as the eyes & ears of the White House, to see, hear, learn and know all. Upon his report about them, they were told, would depend whether or not they get independence...