Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...established the last day out between the Arizona and Herbert Hoover Jr., convalescing at Asheville, N. C. President Hoover talked briefly with his son and Granddaughter Peggy Anne, who chirped: ''It's snowing here. We're going back to Washington tomorrow." (Next evening he could have tuned in to hear his wife's voice in her Unemployment broadcast?...
...Grebe carried Dr. Paul M. Pearson, like the President a Quaker, into the harbor of St. Thomas while a Marine detachment shot off a 17-gun salute. The black population with its 5% sprinkling of whites massed in Emancipation Park to watch Governor Pearson take the oath of office, hear his inaugural address. They were all in good humor because the ceremony marked the transfer of their government from the Navy under Capt. Waldo Evans to the Department of the Interior. The blackamoors (who speak Danish) stared in wonderment as Governor Pearson, who used to teach public speaking at Swarthmore...
...judge or jury, ultimately fixes the time a prisoner must serve. Said round-faced, Roman Catholic Chaplain Elegius Weir: "One of the principal objections of the prisoners is that although all ten members of the Board pass upon the parole applications, only three of them actually come here to hear the cases. They claim they are allowed only one or two minutes to present their cases. They say they are sworn at by the board members. I have gone to Springfield myself several times to plead that changes be made in execution of this law and Warden Hill has also...
...Samuel Seabury, appointed by Governor Roosevelt to hear charges made by the City Club against District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain, began with an inquiry into Mr. Grain's handling of an investigation of the Pathe film studio fire in which eleven people lost their lives (TIME...
When the public hears that a pool is at work in a stock, they are very likely to rush in and attempt to make a few quick points of profit. This is a hazardous practice because usually the public does not hear of the pool until the pool is ready to sell to the public. And it is also hazardous because pools are by no means always successful. Last week came to light the story of a tremendous pool and its unhappy ending...