Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union leaflets demanded that the Waterfront Commission show a "humane approach towards men with police records." State governments of New York and New Jersey stood pat behind the commission. Last week, after eight days on strike, the I.L.A. settled for a face-saving formula: a citizens' committee to hear union complaints against the commission...
...Francisco's Hotel Fairmont on Nob Hill for a $100-a-plate dinner. They got their money's worth: the featured speaker of the evening, Pennsylvania's bright young (37) Governor George Leader, gave the Californians just the sort of fighting talk that they wanted to hear and helped make the affair a boisterous success...
...home pay by a lousy $3.84 per week .. . They are demagogues that misrepresent by reporting what takes place at foreign conferences instead of allowing the American public to wait ten years to learn that they were sold down the river. The Republican Party lacks color, so seldom do you hear of one of its stalwarts . . . fleeing the States like Bill O'Dwyer or going to jail like Mayor Curley. What have they ever contributed to compare with good old Mayor Hague, Ed Crump, Tom Pendergast, el al., or good staunch Democrats like Harold Ickes, Henry Wallace, Alger Hiss, Lamar...
Then, grinning at the shrieks and whistles from the audience, Lillian strode to another microphone, picked up her trombone, and proceeded to blow monotone sounds through the brass tubing. The kids put front made such a hullabaloo, squealing, whistling and clapping in tempo, that they could not possibly hear anything more than the socking rhythm-but that was enough...
...read in company publications than they do in union papers. And publications which have dropped the social notes in favor of stories on corporate problems have found that their readership has jumped. Concludes one company president: "In many companies, we just haven't given employees a chance to hear both sides of the question. It's about time we started...