Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swearing-in of his new Civil Rights Commission. In high good humor Ike insisted on presenting Michigan State's Dr. John Hannah and his five commissioners their "diplomas," i.e., commissions neatly tied in blue ribbon. Then, in more serious vein, he invited them to pull up chairs to hear his own strong hopes for their work in racial relations and to ask questions...
...cruiser Mysore, the new flagship of the Indian navy. But it was as a politician of the folksy, Estes Kefauver model that Menon drew the largest crowds. At New Delhi and Madras he packed meeting halls to the rafters, and dhoti-clad crowds filled the streets outside waiting to hear him. To a youth rally of 25,000, Menon cried defiance of Pakistan over the invasion of Kashmir, and drew roars of approval for a slashing attack on Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's determination to keep the colony of Goa. Cried Menon: "We may have to send...
...years after the Rothmans began flooding the basin with Beethoven, Schoenberg, Saint-Saëns and other good music. FCC is letting him branch out with an AM radio station as well. And this week the station's 36 stockholders-mostly old friends-will meet with Max to hear a cheerful report: during December, its first month of both AM and FM broadcasting, the station grossed a record...
...program, reading from a rough text which he had written out during the afternoon. Said he of the NATO meeting: "There was one basic purpose implicit in every discussion and debate of the conference. That was the pursuit of a just peace. Not once during the week did I hear any slightest hint of saber-rattling or of aggressive intent. Of course, all of us were concerned with developing the necessary spiritual, economic and military strength of our defensive alliance...
...miles from Manhattan. There top executives from every G.E. division live together for 13 weeks, attending classes and eating their meals together, sleeping in a fancy dormitory. In a four-part course they study G.E.'s managerial philosophy and the company's plans for the future, hear lectures on geopolitics, population pressures and economics, finally work on individual projects in which they produce thesislike reports, e.g., "Organization Structure Problems and the Operating Components Incident to Decentralization of Management." About half of G.E.'s permanent faculty are executives; like more and more companies, G.E. brings the rest...