Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throw up in Washington (see col. 1). Since an excellent evidence of the sincerity of Franklin Roosevelt's intentions would be to have Henry Morgenthau publicly advocate a rapprochement with the same fervor he is understood to display in private, some 1,000 curious Academicians turned out to hear Mr. Morgenthau on "The Federal Budget...
Before Mr. Morgenthau, seated at the banquet's head table next to Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament, got a chance to advocate anything at all, he had the chance to hear two speeches ably marshaling the grievances of Business. As alert as a college debater, the Secretary thoughtfully pursed his lips while Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd ("We might carry out the Democratic platform") and Morgan Partner S. Parker Gilbert ("Nothing would accomplish more . . . than the repeal of the undistributed profits tax") proceeded to needle the New Deal's fiscal policy...
Thus, in Vanity Fair in 1926 wrote Carl Van Vechten, pioneer literary drumbeater for U. S. Negroes. Author Van Vechten had just been to a vaudeville house in Newark, N. J. to hear the greatest of Negro blues singers, Bessie Smith. Vanity Fair added an innocent editorial note to his article: "Soon, doubtless, the homely Negro songs of love-sickness known as the Blues, will be better known and appreciated by white audiences." Actually, of course, Bessie Smith was old and revered stuff to many a U. S. jazz lover. But in 1926 she was at the height...
...concerned with actual personalities but with the mores of the typical Washington correspondent, who, according to the author, is a 37-year-old family man who went into journalism by choice, is paid $5,987 a year to write, consciously or unconsciously, pretty much what his publisher wants to hear. This imaginary figure came from a city under 25,000, his father was a professional man, his education includes college training in liberal arts and now he feels the need of more knowledge of economics to do his job properly. Nevertheless, he would again select journalism, would prefer to remain...
...before, the New Friends' concerts take place during the city Sunday's quietest, most leisurely hour, from 5:30 to 7 p. m. As before, applause is frowned upon and there is no chatty intermission. Devout subscribers will hear nothing but Mozart, Schubert, Schumann. For the first time, all the music will be recorded by RCA Victor; some of it in advance. Friend of Music Hirschmann's thesis- that chamber music is too rarely played in public, too hard to get on discs-had scored another point...