Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week he moved his regular press conference (his 300th in seven years) into the dim, cavernous auditorium of the Smithsonian Institution so that 400 visiting editors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors could hear the new Truman in action. After the picture-taking and handshaking, A.S.N.E. President Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones of the Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Journal began the show with a planted question that none of the White House regulars had thought to ask before. He asked the President to comment on his "political philosophy in retiring," and Harry Truman...
...Communist Party is growing stronger. Though outlawed in Jordan, it is very active underground, and you hear the Commie line in every coffee house and bar. Directed from Haifa in Israel (where it is legal), the party has mobile printing presses which flood the countryside with literature. Normally, the Jerusalem Palestinian is not the sort who would be a Communist. But he has not had any work for three years. His properties in the New City are now in the hands of the Israelis. He is desperate. Arab Jerusalem is one of the three most fertile fields for Communism...
...servant trouble. High Commissioner John J. McCloy and the State Department have long wanted the Army to give up the 24,000 German servants who cook and scrub for the families of officers and noncoms in the occupation forces-with their wages paid by Germany. The Army would not hear of it. U.S. officers' and men's wives might have to do menial work, and that would have an "unfortunate effect on prestige and morale." Moreover, explained the Army solemnly, wives in outlying areas often have to travel 50 miles to buy groceries at PXs and, without servants...
...intention of recounting any religious experiences were strongly and justifiably annoyed by this invasion of their sleep and their privacy. If there is one tradition of which Harvard, as a market-place of ideas, should be most jealous, it is the tradition that any opinion should be allowed a hearing if anyone wants to hear it. But the market-place does not extend into the bedroom, and the affair of last Saturday abridged another important Harvard tradition--the right of every student to be left alone...
...Never before had student compositions, including works for full orchestra, been presented on such a large scale. Sponsored by the Adams House Musical Society, the project solved one of a budding composer's most frustrating problems: how to get his music performed. It gave the community a chance to hear what may be highly significant music, and gave local musicians an opportunity to play new works...