Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like all other chiefs of state, President Hoover receives influential men of business unofficially and without formal appointment to hear their private reports on industrial conditions. Of late these callers have been confiding to the President their difficulties in maintaining his wage scale while commodity prices were falling. Outside the White House they repeated their laments in the hearings of newshawks. Last week in so reliable a Republican print as the New York Herald Tribune President Hoover was depicted as waging a stiff backstage "struggle" to uphold his pay policy "in the face of a strong movement in financial circles...
Nothing so exasperates farmers and their friends as to hear a friend of the manufacturers and their Tariff talk scornfully about Government-nurtured Prosperity. A howl of protest went up in Washington against Senator Reed's suggestion. Charles Collins Teague, the Farm Board's vice chairman, declared that $289,050,019 of the Board's $500,000,000 revolving fund was out on amply secured loans to co-operatives and "a large part, if not all, the money loaned will be returned to the Treasury." Oregon's Senator McNary, declaring Senator Reed's proposal "absurd," harked back to the Board...
...Immediate independence is what I hear on every side. . . . And yet no sensible Filipino can possibly believe that the United States would or could grant immediate independence to these islands...
...many of these songs. "Sympathy" was in his first show, The Firefly (1912). "Something Goes Tingle-ingleing" was in his High Jinks the next year. "The Bubble" was in his Katinka. Because the charm of his productions still lingers, Manhattan show folk and theatre-goers were sorry to hear last week that Producer Hammerstein had gone bankrupt. He listed his liabilities as $1,649,136, his assets $53,083, his cash...
...easy for Yale University's shrewd biology students. As their instructor read out his weekly yes-&-no quiz all they had to do was wait to hear their blind classmate's answer. Since he was brilliant and assiduous, they were sure of good marks if they just translated "yes" for his three clicks...