Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Roosevelt, who went to hear her grandson defend her son told the Kiwanis Club of New York that Franklin Roosevelt was named not for prudent Ben Franklin but "after an English friend of his great-grandfather...
...Federal building was so crowded that even the jury box had filled with spectators. At 3:05 a door opened behind the bench. Out strode the black-robed members of the first of the new three-judge Federal tribunals authorized under the Federal Court Reform Act of 1937 to hear cases involving the constitutionality of an act of Congress. Serious, bespectacled Judge Florence Allen of the Circuit Court of Appeals came first.* Stocky, white-haired District Judge John J. Gore and earnest District Judge John D. Martin followed. Since November 15 they had been hearing the plea of 18 Southern...
...hear that American Jews are appealing in Geneva against me. Well, nothing could suit me better. I propose to ask the League to see that these people are removed from Rumania and sent to their proper homes. How and when is a question for the future...
When fans hear Benny Goodman's disciplined but unfettered band play on a phonograph or the radio, they tap their feet. When they listen to him from a dance floor, they shake all over. When they listen to him while sitting in large numbers in an auditorium, they are likely to cut up rough. Last spring when Goodman played Manhattan's Paramount movie theatre, the folks got to running up and down in the aisles and extra police were called out. Something like this took place in the late Mr. Andrew Carnegie's polite plaster shrine last...
Those who could still take it made an historic evening of it by following part of the Goodman band up to Harlem to hear Count Basie's boys battle hunchbacked Chick Webb's men at the Savoy Ballroom...