Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Funds for enforcement of the minimum-wage law, which protects the lowest-paid of our workers, have been drastically cut. And the farmer, who lives with greater economic hazards than perhaps any of us, is being told that he ought to 'go it alone' again . . . You should hear the farmer weep and wail and ask forgiveness for voting as he did last fall...
...Nell Cogburn of Lexington, Ky., the return of her first husband, Sergeant Jimmie Cogburn, posed only a legal problem. Though she was "surprised and happy" to hear of Cogburn's release, 24-year-old Ava Nell frankly prefers her second husband. Farmer James Hern, whom she married two years after Cogburn was reported missing and presumed dead. Ava Nell, who has a six-year-old son by her first marriage and a month-old daughter by the second, hopes to divorce Cogburn, remarry Hern and keep both children. In Korea newly freed Jimmie Cogburn, who had joined the Army...
...name and most probable profession of my mother's cousin, who, when I last heard, was considered the musical genius of our family. I lost almost my whole family, which was exterminated by the Nazis in Poland. No wonder, then, that I am so eager to hear from a relative of mine, even if he is far away. I fully appreciate the fact that in a country as big as the U.S.A. thousands may bear the same name, but I have a feeling that I am not wrong in this case...
British seadogs are bitter. "You never hear of the Nationalists attacking Communist [e.g., Polish] ships trading with the mainland," beefed a Hong Kong trader. Snapped a Royal Naval officer: "If it were politically possible to shoot to kill, this trouble would all be over in an hour...
...long after California's Judge Stanley N. (for Nelson) Barnes, 53, became chief trustbuster of the Eisenhower Administration, he was asked: "When is the Department [of Justice] going to stop this ambushing of the innocent businessman?" Last week, before an SRO crowd of lawyers gathered in Boston to hear his first major policy address, Assistant Attorney General Barnes gave a sharp answer: only when the businessman is really innocent. So far, he observed dryly, he had found "some, but not many, of these 'innocents.' " Anyone who thought that the Republicans intended to scrap or vitiate the antitrust...